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.
>>
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