ONLINE INTER-LIBRARY LOANS REQUESTING & DELIVERY

Laurence LocktonUniversity of Bathl.g.lockton@bath.ac.uk

ACTUALLY THIS IS MORE ABOUT ONLINE ARTICLE REQUEST & DELIVERY…

…but users are used to “Inter-library loans.”

SECURE ELECTRONIC DELIVERY

ILL & doc del free to members of the University.

~75% of requests for journal articles.

SED launched by the British Library in 2003, using Relais to send PDFs.

Now 60p cheaper to the library

SECURE ELECTRONIC DELIVERY

Faster and more convenient for requesters.

Requesters must download and print document within 14 days (unless copyright fee paid.)

Students will have to pay to print.

ONLINE REQUESTING?

Uh oh!

WHAT ABOUT THE COPYRIGHT DECLARATION?

ONLINE REQUEST FORM

Login on University webserver over encrypted connection.

Authentication against Kerberos.

Person_id from LDAP, same as alt ID in Unicorn.

Token passed to my CGI scriptin URL redirect.

ONLINE REQUEST FORM

CGI script generates API transactions.

Checks user’s entitlement, privilege and user status using Display1 User.

Places request using Create and Edit Request commands.

ONLINE REQUEST FORM

Single request form for all formats.

Creates JOURILL or BOOKILL format request, ILL staff will change conference, standards and theses requests as necessary.

Easier than booking a flighton easyJet!

INTEGRATION WITH OPENURL RESOLVER

Need to create a target in SFX

User’s login token ready to pass through resolver as req_dat (Requester Private Data) value of ContextObject

THAT’S ALL FOLKS

Laurence LocktonUniversity of Bathl.g.lockton@bath.ac.uk