Lake Effects

Resource Sharing in the Medical Library World: New Trends , New Challenges

Presenter: Kevin O’BrienUniversity of Illinois at Chicago Health Sciences Library

https://webmeeting.nih.gov/lakeeffects/

GMR LAKE EFFECTS WEBINARAPRIL 18 , 2013

K E V I N O ’ B R I E NU I C L I B R A RY O F T H E H E A LT H S C I E N C E S

A SS I S TA N T S P E C I A L C O L L E C T I O N S A N D A C C E SS S E RV I C E S L I B R A R I A N

Resource Sharing in the Medical Library World: New Trends , New Challenges

New Environment of Resource Sharing

Developments in publishing and scholarly biomedical communication are challenging the legacy model of interlibrary loan (traditional library-to-library shipping and receiving)

Publishing world: rise of e-books and e-journals; embargo periods for e-journal content; restrictive (or vague) licenses for e-resources

Scholarly communication: rapid appearance of citations in literature databases, rise of open access movement, NIH mandate; recent (February 2013) White House memorandum on expanding public access to federally funded research

A Curious Feature of This Moment: Decline in Demand

The National Library of Medicine reports a consistent decline in the number of Docline requests since the peak year of 2002

Reasons?

Some Trends to Anticipate

Increase in (relative) amount of freely-available literature in PMC and elsewhere

Rise in pay-per-view model for document delivery fulfillment

Rise in patron-driven acquisition

Tips to Avoid Overlooking Free Content

Be aware that not all free content is identified as such in Pubmed (two categories: international medical journals, health policy literature)

Be aware of freely available theses and dissertations in institutional repositories

Familiarize yourself with large-scale digital libraries of freely-available scanned books and journals (Internet Archive, HathiTrust Digital Library, Medical Heritage Library, Biodiversity Heritage Library)

Further Reading

See Special Issue of Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery, and Electronic Reserve, “E-Resources Management in Interlibary Loan and Reserves” Vol 22, Issue 3-4, 2012

Resource Sharing Events at MLA 2013

Docline Users Group Meeting (Sunday, May 5, 2:00 p.m.,

Hynes Convention Center, Room 310)

Resource Sharing SIG Meeting (Monday, May 6, 4:30 p.m., Hynes Convention Center, Room 204)

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