It seems that it is also related to copyright restrictions and general counsel interpretations. If you print and re-scan. You're safer. photocopy rules apply and not electronic copy. Don't ask me more. I'm not a lawyer. Karim Boughida Twitter:kboughida [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Andrew Shuping <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Ranti is correct in what she says about publishers. As an ILL person > it drives me nuts that there are so many loopholes just to be able to > send stuff from our databases via ILL. Some of them say you can but > you have to download it, print it, and then scan it again. It isn't > the ILL practices that need improvement, its bringing publishers into > the 21st century. > > And as far as making it searchable its just not an option for a lot of > library ILL departments when they have to rescan the document. There > are only two sending programs for ILL software (Ariel and Odyssey) > outside of email and Ariel is a huge pain in the butt as to what type > of scanners work with it. And while Odyssey can support more scanners > a number of ILL departments just don't have the money to buy a > scanner/software to make it OCR compatible documents. > > Andrew Shuping > Emerging Technologies & Services/Interlibrary Loan > Jack Tarver Library, Macon, GA > Robert Frost - "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned > about life: it goes on." > > > > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Ranti Junus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> It depends on the license agreement between the publisher and the >> lending library. Many publishers do not allow library ILL to simply >> download the PDF directly from their journal article page and send it >> to the requestor. A lot of publishers allow the lending library to >> download and print the article, and then send it to the borrowing >> library as paper copy. There are also publishers who allow to send >> article as print-scan-send. That is, we have to print out the PDF, >> scan it (back to the PDF), and send it as a file. >> >> Do ask me why the publisher want that kind of silliness. That's what >> I'm told when I complaint about exactly the same thing. >> >> It is my understanding the scan-to-pdf is the problematic one; ILL >> unit will need to have OCR-capable scanner and that might add another >> burden to them if the OCR result is not good. YMMV. >> >> >> ranti. >> >> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:18 PM, don warner saklad <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> How do you request digital format for a pdf interlibrary loan journal >>> article where a digital format is available for the article?... not the >>> image format if available in digital. Guidelines for interlibrary loan >>> practices need to distinguish digital pdf from image pdf where journal >>> articles are available in digital format. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Bulk mail. Postage paid. >> > --