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Opening Interlibrary Loan to Open Access
Tina BaichILL Discussion Group
ALA Midwinter MeetingJanuary 21, 2011
Agenda
• Overview of ILL operations• Open access defined• Open access workflow• Data on open access requests
Overview of ILL operations
• Community served• Staffing• Request volume / trends
Borrowing Volume
2007/2008 2008/2009 2009/2010 2010/20110
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
16,638
23,210 23,42222,098
14,211
20,86721,308
20,094
Borrowing Requests Submitted and Filled
Submitted
Filled
Open access defined
• Digital, online content• Free of charge• Free of most copyright and licensing
restrictions
Tracking open access requests• Timeframe
• Tracking began February 2009• Presenting data from July 2009 to June
2011• Workflow
Workflow: ILLiad custom queues
Workflow: ILLiad custom email
Open access borrowing requests
FY 2010 FY 20110
50100150200250300350400450500
318
487
Open access borrowing requests by document type
Article
Book / Chapter
Thesis
Conference
Report
Gov Doc / Patent
Other
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
FY 2011FY 2010
Open access article requests
E-journal Portal
Journals
Universities / US Libraries
Other digital repositories
Other
Author / Faculty
Organizations
Government
0 20 40 60 80 100 120
101
81
52
51
35
34
33
18
Open access book /book chapter requests• Publication dates ranging from 1582
to 2009• Top departments
• History• Philanthropic Studies• Religious Studies
• Top repositories• Google Books• Internet Archive• HathiTrust
Open access thesis requests
US - Flor
ida
Canad
a
US - Ohio
US - Tex
as
US - Virg
inia
US - Cali
forn
ia
US - Nor
th C
aroli
na
US - M
issou
ri
US - Pen
nsylv
ania
Austra
lia
US - Geo
rgia
US - M
assa
chus
etts
US - M
aryla
nd
US - New
Jer
sey
US - Ten
ness
ee
US - Uta
h
US - W
iscon
sin
US - W
ashin
gton
US - M
ississ
ippi
South
Afri
ca
US - Okla
hom
a
US - Io
wa
US - Ken
tuck
y
US - W
est V
irgini
a
US - Onli
ne
US - Lo
uisian
a
The N
ethe
rland
s
US - Alab
ama
US - New
Yor
k
US - Illi
nois
US - Sou
th C
aroli
na0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
ETDs Located by Country & US State
Open access conference paper requests
All Academic / Political Research Online
Conference / Organization website
Philanthropy Resources Online
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
46
23
12
Top Three Repositories
Countering a false expectation
If more content is freely available, ILL requests
will go down.FALSE
Open access resources• All Academic.
http://convention3.allacademic.com/one/www/research/index.php?
• arXiv.org. http://arxiv.org/• CiteSeerX. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/• Gallica. http://gallica.bnf.fr/• Google Books. http://books.google.com/• HathiTrust. http://www.hathitrust.org/• Internet Archive. http://www.archive.org/• OhioLINK ETD Center. http://etd.ohiolink.edu/• Political Research Online.
http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/prol/prol01/• Theses Canada Portal.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/thesescanada/
References• Connaway, L.S. & Dickey, T.J. 2010, The Digital Information Seeker: Report of
the Findings from Selected OCLC, RIN, and JISC User Behaviour Projects. Available at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/reports/2010/digitalinformationseekerreport.pdf.
• Connaway, L.S., Dickey, T.J. & Radford, M.L. 2011, “‘If it is too inconvenient, I’m not going after it.:’ convenience as a critical factor in information-seeking behaviors,” Library and Information Science Research, vol. 33, pp. 179-190. Pre-print available at: http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/connaway-lisr.pdf.
• Kohn, K. 2006, “Finding it free: tips and techniques for avoiding borrowing fees and locating online publicly available materials”, Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 57-65.
• Jackson, M.E. 2004, Assessing ILL/DD Services: New Cost-Effective Alternatives. Greenwood, Westport, Connecticut.
• Martin, R.A. 2010, “Finding free and open access resources: a value-added service for patrons”, Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 189-200.
• Morrison, H.G. 2006, “The dramatic growth of open access: implications and opportunities for resource sharing. Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 95-107.
• Pennsylvania State University 2010, “About CiteSeerX,” Available at: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/about/site;jsessionid=440EFBF183647A637F0950A3DDEE89CE.
• Suber, P. 2010, Open Access Overview, Available at: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm.
• Weible, C.L. & Janke, K.L. 2011, Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook. American Library Association, Chicago.
THANK YOU!
Questions? Comments?
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