OhioLINK – ILL Experiences in Licensing

ALA June 27, 2004

“The first thing we do, let's kill all the Lawyers.”

ILL in a Group E-Journal License• When almost all of the titles accessed and

articles used electronically by CC’s and IC’s were never held in print

• When every university accesses more titles than held in print

• When 10 of 13 universities use more articles from titles not held in print than from titles held in print

• When the incremental cost for this access is only 5-15% over the collective print investment

Pre-EJC: Percent of Titles Held in Print at Each University for 26 publishers/publishing groups representing over 5600 titles

(e.g. Ingenta = 1 publisher)

9.8%11.1%

16.3%17.8% 18.4%

20.1%

22.8%24.5% 24.7%

25.8%

29.5% 30.3%

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ILL in a Group License- Minimum requirement from 1996

• Rights to anything held in print is unaffected

• If the Member had a print subscription for the title at the time of the initial Agreement the ILL right is retained even if the print copy is cancelled

• The requested article is printed by the Member and mailed or faxed to the requesting library

• Everything else is gravy and desirable

OhioLINK members' ANNUAL OCLC ILL Serial Lending/Borrowing

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EJC introduced April 1998

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EJC introduced April 1998

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Annual EJC Downloads from titles not held inprint on campusEJC + Serial aggregator DLs

EJC introduced April 1998

Let’s put ILL in perspective• Tempest in a teapot

• Reality does not suggest the publisher’s have anything to fear

• Massive ILL increases are not our job nor objective nor priority

• ILL is not the user’s priority or objective