• General Resources / Guidelines / Standards
• Other resources for Medical Libraries, for finding Book info
• Find Free Full text articles / links
• Resource Sharing links
• Document Delivery Resources
• Software and/or Electronic Delivery Resources
• Copyright Resources
• Miscellaneous / Paper waste management

View the Slide Presentation Online "The History of InterLibrary Loan"

Read the current and past TOC's & Abstracts of
Library Trends articles
Also browse through the many online Library Journals
for other articles of interest regarding ILL, & Document Delivery trends
Online Library/Information Science/Education serials

ILL Web
Excerpts quoted from websites:
ILLWeb is a gateway to electronic and print resources pertaining to all aspects of interlibrary loan (ILL), document delivery, and resource sharing. Designed to be comprehensive and international in scope, ILLWeb features links to resources that will help practitioners locate materials for their clientele, manage the ILL process, and keep up with developments in the profession.
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lawlibrary/illweb/

BCR Online
Interlibrary Loan Resource Kit 
http://www.bcr.org/~bss/illkit.html

Example of ILL workflow
www.chilibsys.org/CE/ILL/ill_workflow.html

ILL User Satisfaction Surveys and Studies
www.nelinet.net/res/use_srvy.htm

PDF File
Designing user satisfaction surveys for interlibrary loan services
Abstract
The article examines the practical issues in qualitative assessment of
Inter-Library Loans (ILL) services. It demonstrates the use of data to 
enable the evolution of ILL into a client-centred service.
www.aslib.co.uk/pmm/1999/aug/03.pdf 
**Related: see my page with "survey" resources for your library or website**.

Borrowing From and Lending To
Libraries in Other Countries: A Guide for Librarians
www-personal.umich.edu/~barbsnow/international.htm

But Wait! There's More:
Internet resources for ILL'ers
www.lib.stthomas.edu/osf/depts/ill/resource.htm

Montana State Library has an Online Course for Interlibrary Loaners
You may find it useful to understand the basics of  Interlibrary Loan Procedures
and while it is designed for Montana State Libraries, there is good information for anyone,
on the processes involved in interlibrary loan transactions. The training also provides
resource links.
Excerpt Quoted from website:
Topics include what is Interlibrary Loan, Montana Interlibrary Loan Protocols, and an overview of the Interlibrary Loan Process. This class will take approximately 1-2 hours. It includes exercises, links to other resources, and a self-assesment tool.
http://montanalibraries.org/ILLTraining/default.htm

Directory for Document Delivery Services and Users - 
Hundreds of Resources and Providers.
www.docdel.net

Infotrieve
www.infotrieve.com

Internet Library for Librarians
Circulation, Reserve, and Interlibrary Loan:
Document Delivery Services
www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/cir_dd.htm

Access & Technology Program/ ILL/DD Related Resources
www.arl.org/access/illdd-res/illdd-res.shtml

ILLWeb Listservs
www.law.northwestern.edu/lawlibrary/illweb/listservs.htm

BUBL LINK / 5:15 Catalogue of Internet Resources
Document Delivery

Canadian National Guidelines for Document Delivery
www.nlc-bnc.ca/9/5/index-e.html

Interlibrary Loan Directory on the Web :
Symbols and Interlibrary Loan Policies in Canada
www.nlc-bnc.ca/6/16/s16-202-e.html

ARL
Access & Technology Program/ ILL/DD Related Resources
www.arl.org/access/illdd-res/illdd-res.shtml

Using Interlibrary Loan: An OCLC Tutorial
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/usingill/

OCLC ILLweb-
Tutorial
http://www.oclc.org/ill/tutorial/illweb/unsupported.html

Getting Started with the
OCLC ILL Policies Directory
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/ill/illpoliciesrefcard.html

First Search
http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/guidedtour/ill.htm

OCLC Passport - Reference Guide 
OCLC ILL Micro Enhancer - quick reference guide 

OCLC Participating Institutions List Search
Abbreviations for Participating Institutions

Subscribe to the Journal:
Resource Sharing & Information Networks *TOCs online
Innovations in Library Consortia, Systems, and Networks for Interlibrary Cooperation

LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE:
Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing
www.ifla.org/II/ill.htm

Google Directory Links for:
 Document Delivery

Another 1995 presentation
Presented to the 1995 NASIG Conference
From Serials Publications to Document Delivery to Knowledge Management
http://www.ala.org/acrl/invited/peters.html

Learn more about NASIG
The North American Serials Interest Group

Read about the
Access & Technology Program/ NAILDD Project
Information Access & Delivery Services:
A Strategic Direction for Research Libraries
http://www.arl.org/access/infoaccess.shtml

Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery Publications from ARL

Bibliothek (European site) - resource sites
Journals: document delivery services, table of contents, previews, e-journals,
http://www.ihs.ac.at/Library/journals/

EBSCO - EJS - Electronic Journal Services 
EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS) is your gateway to thousands 
of e-journals containing millions of articles from hundreds of different publishers, 
all at one web site.
E Journal Titles Listing on EJS
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/info/ejsTitles.asp
*Related: Publisher License agreement links

See also: Publist.com for finding Journal information, and more

Join/Subscribe to the ILL listserv:
ILL-L@LISTSERV.ACNS.NWU.EDU
Interlibrary Loan Discussion Group
Send the following message to
LISTPROC@LISTSERV.ACNS.NWU.EDU
SUBSCRIBE ILL-L Your-first-name Your-last-name

Find out about Doc-Del
a listserv about Document Delivery trends
http://www.docdel.net/Information_DocDel.html

For information about subscribing to the most popular
Library Lists - Click here for the, 4subscribe.html page

For your Library website: a Interlibrary Loan Request Form Kit
The Interlibrary Loan Request Form kit is a set of scripts that allow you to
put your library on the World Wide Web!
The kit uses Web pages to accept requests for books and articles 
and, once the reader has filled out the minimum required fields, 
launches a CGI script written in Perl to E-mail one or more specified 
sites to carry out the request. 
The E-mail messages may be read by machine as well as human recipients.
Some local computer expertise is required to successfully set up the kit.
The form kit  is FREE "CareWare"

• ILL help for Medical / Health Science Libraries
• Help for finding Books, ISSNs, ISBNs etc.

Medical Library Association FAQ on Interlibrary Loan
http://www.mlanet.org/government/positions/illfaq.html

NLM DOCLINE Manual

DOCLINE Statistical Reports - 
NLM instructions for downloading stats

DOCLINE now available ONLINE 
(But if your library has QuickDoc installed - you'll need to use that for stats)
Just login with your Librarie's ID and Password.

Loansome Doc Patron Administration

Pubmed *Single* Citation Matcher - 
helps with verifying MEDLINE Citations,
simply enter "parts" of citation you know 
to find matching citations. 
Find PMIDs for articles.

Search Pubmed / Medline
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
Fact Sheet:
What's the Difference Between MEDLINE® and PubMed®?
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/dif_med_pub.html

Search for Journal Information

LocatorPlus - Search the National Library Of Medicine
find Books, Journal titles - NLM unique id's, etc.

PubMed Journals - search list of Journals in MEDLINE by name,
abbreviation or ISSN 

Databases found on Publist site
Powered by Publist / Infotrieve -
Excerpts quoted from website:
DocSource: A searchable list of over 150,000 Journal titles.
Search by Journal title or by ISSN. 
Your search results will be displayed with a list of possible matches. 
From your search results, the Journal title is a link to more
in-depth information about the Journal and publisher. If available, 
click on the Table of Contents, TOC button, and drill down to the ‘article’ level. 

Article Finder
Access the most powerful database of scientific, technical, medical, and other scholarly content. 
Search through 20 million citations and 10 million abstracts from over 30,000 journals.
With a simple or natural language search, enter individual or 
multiple keywords into the search box.
Results returned will contain one or more of the terms you have entered. 

EContent - EDocLink
INTRODUCING EDOCLINK. Infotrieve is pleased to announce that our eContent
and  thousands of new titles can be delivered in PDF format via our new 
eDocLink delivery method. With eDocLink, the article is retrieved and
a link to the PDF is sent to your e-mail. 
This allows you to download the article at your convenience 
within 72 hours of receiving the link.

You may also search Medline & Pubmed from the Publist site.

TOCs
Table of Contents (TOC) is a database providing the display of tables of contents of journals. 
The TOC alert service delivers tables of contents to you as they
arrive from the publisher based on journal titles you've pre-selected and entered into your TOC profile.

Register for access - http://www.publist.com 
Note: some services are available for free, and others such as document delivery require payment.

More Resources for finding Journal Information Online
LINK OUT
Excerpt quoted from website:
LinkOut Journals by Title
Journals in PubMed for which links to the full text have been provided are listed .
 User registration, a subscription fee, or some other type of fee may be 
required to access the full text of articles for some journals. Policies vary by provider and by journal.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/journals/loftext_noprov.html

EBSCO - EJS - Electronic Journal Services 
EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS) is your gateway to thousands 
of e-journals containing millions of articles from hundreds of different publishers, 
all at one web site.
E Journal Titles Listing on EJS
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/info/ejsTitles.asp
*Related: Publisher License agreement links

MDChoice - Journal listing of Online Full text titles
(*access to full text, may require, subscription and/or fees*)
http://mdchoice.com/journals.asp?CAT=1

Ingenta.com
The most comprehensive collection of academic and professional
publications available for online, fax and Ariel delivery.

Make sure you also make use of your own Library's Databases,
EJournals, and access to Full text resources, 
that you may have access to and/or a license for.

FreeMedicalJournals.com

PubMed Central
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive
of life sciences journal literature. Access to PMC is free and unrestricted. 
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

Directory of Electronic Health Sciences Journals
Excerpt quoted from website:
This directory provides information on the electronic versions of key 
English language peer-reviewed print journals in clinical medicine, 
biomedical research, nursing and allied health. 
It is designed to assist health sciences librarians manage these resources for their libraries.

E-Journals.org

Free Medical Journals : PubMed Search
This is a selected list of free full-text online electronic medical journals, 
with an emphasis on journals that are included in PubMed Medline
and have current issues available. 
Most of them have no trial period stated by the publisher; 
some are available on free trial basis. 

HighWire 
http://highwire.stanford.edu/
11,677,011 articles from over 4,500 Medline journals, 
392,788 free full text articles from 307 HighWire-based journals
Free Online Full-text Journals listing.
Please NOTE!: List is limited to journals published online
with the assistance of "HighWire Press" ONLY,
and the years covered & issues available for Free,
"without needing a personal or institutional subscription".
Please remember - your Library may also be able
to access "current content" to some of these same journal titles
through "free with print" subscription access & registration. 

Free Full text - Chemistry Journals
http://www.chemistry.bsu.by/abc/current/fulltext.htm

PubMed Central
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/

Subject index to free full-text electronic journals in science
http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/resources/ejournal_sci.shtml

Synergy Medical
Information Resources | Links to Free Full-text Journals
http://www.schi.org/ir/free_journals.html

Strategian:
The Strategic Guide to Quality Information in Biology, Chemistry, 
Computer Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, and Psychology
Free Full Text Journal and Magazine Articles, Books, Preprints, 
Documents, Patents, and Reports
http://www.strategian.com/free_full_text.html

Tip: try searching Google for titles and or articles, and also individual Journal sites.
You may find material not listed in FREE listings, is available fulltext online, and
sometimes publishers offer "free issues" online, you may luck out and find article needed
in the free issue.

Search WWW Search librarysupportstaff.com

Other resources for Free Full text:

• Find Articles.com
• MagPortal.com
• Magatopia.com
• MagazineBoy.com

NewsLink - Magazines
http://newslink.org/mag.html

Newspapers Online 
*You may be able to obtain Free Full text articles for Today or recent articles
Some sites charge a fee for archived material

• www.onlinenewspapers.com/
• www.newspaperlinks.com/home.cfm
• www.thepaperboy.com.au/welcome.html

GPO Access
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html

Search Gov.com
http://www.searchgov.com/

Excerpts quoted from websites:

University of Ilinois
The UIUC Government Documents Library is an official depository for United Nations, 
Canadian, United States and State of Illinois publications and information.
http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/doc/
EJournals
http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/doc/ejournals.asp

University of Michigan
The Documents Center is a central reference and referral point for 
government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or 
international. Its web pages are a reference and
instructional tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/

Find full text articles: 
listing of Library, Information, and Computer Sciences 
Titles Online

The Online Books page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Make sure you also make use of your own Library's Databases,
EJournals, and access to Full text resources, 
that you may have access to and/or a license for.

Please also note! all copyright issues
involved with online material and access, printing, or copying or downloading.

ISBN.org
ISSN Web Site

Related:
ISBN.nu
Excerpt quoted from website
isbn.nu offers a quick way to compare the prices of any in-print and many out-of-print books at nine online bookstores. You can view the results with or without the shipping costs of a single book, and also find the fastest source for a book from ordering to delivery.
Search on the title, author, or subject to find books of interest, and then simply click 

Guidelines for Sending ILL Requests by Email
http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p3/g-ill.htm

International guidelines already exist for sending ILL requests by fax transmission
(www.ifla.org/VI/2/p3/g-fax.htm), and the IFLA Office for 
International Lending has now been charged with producing 
new guidelines for sending ILL requests by email. 
http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p3/g-ill.htm

RUSA Guidelines
Guidelines and Procedures for Telefacsimile and Electronic Delivery of Interlibrary Loan Requests and Materials

IFLA Net
Excerpt quoted from site:
Recommendations for Interlibrary Loan Response Codes
The problem
Where interlibrary loan requests cannot be satisfied immediately by the supplying library, 
a response is required in order to inform the requesting library of the reason for non-supply.
http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p3/rcodes.htm

RUSA Guidelines
Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States

Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States Explanatory Supplement
For Use with the Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States (January 2001)

Google Directory Links
Resource Sharing

Resource Sharing - OCLC
Excerpts quoted from websites
Resource Sharing services from OCLC build on and 
strengthen the tradition of library cooperation.
www.oclc.org/services/sharing/

Document Delivery Suppliers
This listing of document delivery suppliers is being provided by Jean Shipman
http://www.library.vcu.edu/tml/docsupp/

Guidelines for Sending ILL Requests by Email
http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p3/g-ill.htm
International guidelines already exist for sending ILL requests by fax transmission
(www.ifla.org/VI/2/p3/g-fax.htm), and the IFLA Office for I
nternational Lending has now been charged with producing
new guidelines for sending ILL requests by email. 
http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p3/g-ill.htm

DOCUMENT DELIVERY - other resource links

Document Delivery Resources on the Web 
compiled by Frank Warren Frank@docdel.com 
showcase.netins.net/web/trhalvorson/f-stuff/docdel.shtml

LLRX - Document Delivery Resources on the World Wide Web
www.llrx.com/extras/document.htm
Document Delivery Suppliers and Resources on the World Wide Web
www.llrx.com/extras/document2.htm

ACQWeb's Document Delivery and Electronic Journal Services
acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/acqweb/pubr/dd.html

Focused Investigation of Document Delivery Options - FIDDO
(United Kingdom - Project)
www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dis/fiddo/fiddo.html

Electronic Document Delivery
A trial in an academic library
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/edd/

Google Directory Links
Document Delivery

Google Directory Links
Document Suppliers

YAHOO B2B Information >
Business to Business > Information > Document Delivery

Learn about ECopy Services

Interlibrary Loan - Information Policies/Photocopying
http://www.cni.org/docs/infopols/CONTU.html
CONTU Guidelines on Photocopying
under Interlibrary Loan Arrangements

See related: Digital Copiers /Scanners

Software and/or Electronic Delivery Resources
Please Note! This is not an endorsement of any product or service - it is for informational use only

OCLC Access Suite
The OCLC Access Suite compact disc offers a variety of OCLC software needed to use t
he OCLC Cataloging, Interlibrary Loan, Selection, and Union List services.
www.oclc.org/oclc/menu/suite/

Related: Software for Electronic delivery

Prospero / FREE download
Excerpt quoted from website
Prospero is an open source Internet Document Delivery (IDD) system.
It allows libraries to send and receive documents in electronic format from Prospero or Ariel ® workstations.
It also converts Prospero / Ariel ® files (TIFF images) into Portable Document Files (PDF)
and then places them on a Web site for direct patron access.
Find out more at : bones.med.ohio-state.edu/prospero/
See too: Prospero 2.0 FAQ

Ariel
Excerpt quoted from website
Ariel®—The document delivery system for users of the Internet! 
Ariel® for Windows® from Infotrieve. It's all you need to turn your PC, printer, and scanner into a state-of-the-art document transmission station on the Internet. With commercially available hardware and Ariel software, you can scan articles, photos, and other documents directly; transmit the electronic images to other Ariel workstations anywhere in the world, using either FTP or e-mail; and convert them to PDF for easy patron delivery.
The process is seamless—and all with no long-distance phone charges.
Find out more at:www.infotrieve.com/ariel/index.html
Arial Distributors in the United States

See related - Digital Copier / Scanner resources for document delivery

Online article ~
RLG DigiNews
 April 15, 2002, Volume 6, Number 1
ISSN 1093-5371 
Digital Copiers and Scribal Musings
Fred Stielow
Walter P. Reuther Library 

Whitepaper:
ZyLab The Paper Filing Company
The ultimate ease of use
One Click Archiving
http://www.zylab.com/zylab2002/us/Downloads/whitepapers/easeofuse.shtml

Electronic Document Delivery
A trial in an academic library
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/edd/

Examples of products available - 
Digital Copiers 
*This is not an endorsement of any product - it is presented for informational use only.
Please consult actual product vendors for full product information.
Excerpts quoted from individual websites:

Product Reviews from the U.Va. Community
http://www.itc.virginia.edu/dcs/rev/Xerox.html
Xerox Document Center
Product: Xerox DocuCenter 432ST
A digital copier is one that can digitally capture a document, manipulate
the document images (pages) in memory and print multiple copies with 
a single scan of the original document. 
The Xerox DocuCenter 432ST is a digital copier that supports core 
the office functions of network printing and scanning, 
and desktop faxing as well as walkup photocopying and faxing.
· Network Printing makes the full feature set of the copier available 
from the desktop computer. 
Documents are simply routed to the copier as with any other networked printer.
· With Network Scanning you can scan documents to your desktop or to a shared network file space.
· Desktop Faxing provides for faxing from the desktop computer using 
either a personal or shared phone book Faxes may be queued 
for immediate transmission or scheduled to be sent later.
· Walkup photocopying may make use of job queue management
from the copier console to change the order of queued print jobs.
· Walkup faxing may be performed while a print job is printing
. Faxes may be queued for immediate transmission or scheduled to be sent later.

Complete Walk-up, LAN, and Internet Fax Capabilities
The cost-effective e-STUDIO35 maximizes fax productivity with optional Walk-up Fax, LAN Faxing, and Internet Fax capabilities. The optional Fax Board comes with a fast 33.6 Kbps Modem, Super G3 JBIG compression for faster transmission speeds and superior image quality, and an optional Second Line NCU that can effectively double the system's fax productivity.

When combined with the GL-1010, the e-STUDIO35 offers optional LAN fax capabilities that allow you to send faxes via any PC on the network using the copier's fax option. By adding the optional Scan-to-Email Kit you can save money on long distance charges with the ability to fax documents directly over the Internet. 

Related - resources
Doculex - Products
Excerpts quoted from website:
http://www.doculex.com/search.htm
Electronic Document Search, Location & Retrieval
DocuLex Search is the electronic document search and retrieval component accompanying the document scanning, content indexing and PDF format conversion program PDF.Capture. Three DocuLex Search options are available: Desktop Search for single-station or local and wide area networks, Browser based Search/Web Internet-based document management. Also available is the Publish version, an easy "point and click" solution for publishing documents and retrieval software on CD, DVD or equivalent media.
Read more:
http://www.doculex.com/search.htm

Save Time and Space
Scanning, Indexing and Archiving
PDF.Capture is an integrated scanning/capture, document content indexing and
PDF, JPG or TIFF format output solution in one package. PDF.Capture 
offers a full line of software tools required to achieve productive conversions from paper
to searchable electronic files

Related:
Guidelines for Sending ILL Requests by Email
http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p3/g-ill.htm

International guidelines already exist for sending ILL requests by fax transmission
(www.ifla.org/VI/2/p3/g-fax.htm), and the IFLA Office for 
International Lending has now been charged with producing 
new guidelines for sending ILL requests by email. 
http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p3/g-ill.htm

RUSA Guidelines
Guidelines and Procedures for Telefacsimile and Electronic Delivery of Interlibrary Loan Requests and Materials

Does your Library have a Scanner?
Try these "inexpensive" software tools, to Add Abilities to your scanner, that  may prove useful
for Document delivery, management, storage and more.
Photocopier free version or register Pro version $18
Use your scanner like a copier. 
Have you ever wanted to quickly send something from your scanner to your printer without having to go through intermediate steps? Photocopier uses any TWAIN-compliant scanner to scan your document or photo and send it directly to your printer. The simple, easy-to-use interface lets you select color, grayscale, or black-and-white scanning at 100 percent or 70 percent; adjust the brightness; and quickly select the number of copies to print.
http://www.nico2000.com/

Fax Machine $25
Turn your scanner and modem into a fax machine!
Got a scanner and a modem? Why not combine those two into a fax machine?
This is how Fax Machine helps you: put a document on your scanner's glass, start Fax Machine, press Scan a page, press Send fax, fill in the recipient telephone number and press Fax it. That's all!
Fax Machine takes the hassle out of scanning and faxing. No difficult settings to make, very user friendly.
http://www.nico2000.com/

Digital Postman $25
Why send a fax, when you can have Digital Postman?
Digital Postman: the easy way to send documents as e-mail attachments! See for yourself:
Start Digital Postman. Put your document on your scanner's glass and ask Digital Postman to start scanning. Digital Postman scans the document, opens a new e-mail message in your e-mail program and attaches the scanned image to the message. Select a recipient from your address book, fill in the subject line and send the message. It's easier than sending a fax!
Digital Postman supports the use of Automatic Document Feeders (ADF), so sending a multi-page document is just as easy.
Requirements: 
A Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP system. 
A scanner that complies to the Twain standard (most scanners do). 
An e-mail program that complies to the MAPI or VIM standard. Examples of MAPI e-mail programs: Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, Eudora, Pegasus Mail, Netscape Messenger. Examples of VIM e-mail programs: cc:Mail, Lotus Notes. 
**Digital Postman WON'T Work with web based mail, such as: HotMail, Juno Mail,  Yahoo Mail, etc.**
http://www.nico2000.com/
**Note: These titles and others for Scanning & OCR software options are mentioned on my
paper management page (how long to keep documents for record keeping purposes, how to organize, etc)

Copyright in the Library
Interlibrary Loan
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/l-108g.htm

CONTU Guidelines on Photocopying under Interlibrary Loan Arrangements
http://www.cni.org/docs/infopols/CONTU.html

Copyright and Document Services
General information on library copying as it relates to document services.
http://www.welch.jhu.edu/services/copyrt-w.html

BCR Online
Interlibrary Loan Resource Kit 
http://www.bcr.org/~bss/illkit.html

• US Copyright Office 
• The Everything you want to know about Copyright Site 
• Copyright & FairUse 
• Copyright and Intellectual Property  / ARL
• DMCA: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act / ALA
• Complying with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• Digital Copyrights and Wrongs 
• Find Law - Copyright resources

From: August 2001 issue of LearningCircuits.org
• ITL Guide to Copyright 

 

 

US Copyright office : FACT SHEETS to print out
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/index.html#fl

Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act:
What is the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA)?
By Daniel W. Uhlfelder
http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2000/uhlfelder-2000-12.html

Ucita Online
http://www.ucitaonline.com/
Also see:
http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/ucitapg.html
and
AFFECT - Americans for fair electronic commerce transactions

Obtain permissions for copies, reprints:

Copyright Clearance Center
http://www.copyright.com/

Information excerpt quoted from this web site of Copyright resources/ University of Albany
http://www.albany.edu/~ls973/copy.html
University Microforms International
UMI is a publisher of dissertations, and their site provides a good deal
of information for dissertation authors.
They provide a sample permission letter for use of materials within a dissertation at this site.
http://www.umi.com/hp/Support/DServices/copyrght/AppxA.html

Example of Library online Electronic Copyright Notice
http://webdoc.library.upenn.edu/ill/copyright.html

Example of Copyright Statement that should/may appear on Interlibrary loan requests:

      NOTICE: WARNING CONCERNING COPYRIGHT RESTRICTIONS
      The Copyright law of the U.S. (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted materials. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use", that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

      This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgement, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law. (U.S. Register of Copyrights)
 

Related sites of interest:
Protect fair use for consumers
http://www.protectfairuse.org/index.html

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Libraries today offer many options for patrons to recieve documents, including access to full text articles that they can print out, using Library printers. This has led to the problem of "printer" abuses, and escalating costs for paper and printer maintenance.

The following are resource links regarding these problems:

White Paper:
Excerpts quoted from website
Controlling Printing Costs at Public Institutions
Background
Since the early 1970's card (softkey) and coin/bill accessed vending systems have been widely used for metering and charging for copier use. Libraries, business service centers and other establishments have benefited by providing conveniently located vended copying for their customers. Law offices, accounting firms and large corporations have also been aided through easy identification, allocation and accounting of costs by user, department, or project.

The escalating growth of CD-ROM and Internet accessible, full text and image based information is creating demand for more printed documents than ever before. Students, business travelers with laptop computers, and visitors to libraries and other public research areas all require a convenient, easy to use and inexpensive method of printing in a remote environment. Unconcerned about printing costs and more concerned with convenience; these users are downloading hard copy printouts of entire web sites and  research databases for their assignments or research. (Class assignments, grades and course notes are also being posted and printed routinely now.) Much of this is wasted and is thrown away. The large blue recycle containers next to the network printers, which are filled with discarded printer paper, are a graphic reminder of the enormous waste and cost. 
Read entire document:
http://www.goprint.com/whitepaper.html

Campus Paper Waste Reduction Project:  A Follow-Up
By Mary Reuling and Diwakar Thapa
May 2001
Excerpt:
The report, Campus Paper Waste Reduction Project, published by Heather Crawford and Kelly Forney in  2000, started with the line, ”The piles of abandoned paper that accumulate besides the printers in the Library and Humanities computer labs, the recyclable paper found in trash bins and the large volumes of one-sided reading materials printed for classes are all testament to the rampant careless use of paper on campus.”
Read complete text:
http://www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/Audits/audit2001_paper.htm

Teacher project idea:
Objectives:
Students will...
-quantify their paper use
-discuss alternatives
-begin to think about paper waste reduction 
Excerpt quoted from website
Drowning in paper
Background: According to the EPA, paper is the largest part (38%) of solid waste, 
about 78 million tons, or about 560 lbs. for every American
http://www.mcswmd.org/kids/drowning.html

Think Before You Print or Copy
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The "paperless office" promised by the computer revolution has not materialized. In fact, annual consumption of office paper has nearly doubled since 1980, and it represents one of the fastest-growing components of the nation's waste stream.
Read entire text:
http://www.iona.edu/infotech/paper.htm

Online
Excerpt quoted from website
 1998 MLA Annual Meeting
Electronic Poster Session
"When It's Not Free Anymore:
Promoting the Unpopular"
Beverly Murphy, Head, Marketing and Publications; Julie VanDyke, Head, Learning Resources Services; Derrick Vines, Staff Specialist, Medical Center Library, Duke University, Durham, NC
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/dukemla98/mla98pst.html
Recently, the Library has seen the cost of paper and number of printed pages in our recycling bins rise to new levels. With the advent of electronic access to full text and graphics via Ovid and the Web, paper and printing costs were expected to further escalate. After investigating alternatives to our current printing practices, we decided to initiate charging for printing in certain areas of the Library. This decision resulted in the installation of the Lynx 5000 Network Printer Manager. A task force then brainstormed for ways to positively market this transition, focusing specifically on the benefits of the new service. Formulating a slogan that could be adopted to different formats, marketing the implementation as an event, and identifying channels of publicity, were the primary challenges that needed to be addressed. Superb planning allowed us to meet these challenges, and since this service has been implemented, the complaints have been few. This learning experience has further equipped us with the tools necessary to promote future projects, especially those which may be of an unpopular nature. 
Read online complete poster session presentation.

Kalamazoo College
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 AVOIDING PRINTING WASTE
Kalamazoo College has instituted a campus-wide policy on printing to avoid paper and toner waste. 
Take advantage of these tips to conserve paper and toner. 
Find tips at:
http://www.kzoo.edu/is/library/printing/avoidingwaste.html

Interlibrary Loan - Information Policies/Photocopying
http://www.cni.org/docs/infopols/CONTU.html
CONTU Guidelines on Photocopying
under Interlibrary Loan Arrangements

Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery Resources

• General Resources / Guidelines / Standards
• Other resources for Medical Libraries, for finding Book info
• Find Free Full text articles / links
• Resource Sharing links
• Document Delivery Resources
• Software and/or Electronic Delivery Resources
• Copyright Resources
• Miscellaneous / Paper waste management
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