Basic Online Searching

Alternatives for Document Delivery

Session 13.

Péter Jacsó LIS 663 Fall 2015

• You can do all the magic search tricks, but ….

• The ultimate goal is getting the best documents

• Your library may have them but shrinking budget comes with shrinking chances

• Typical students cannot afford to pay $40-$50 for a single article from Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Emerald, Taylor & Francis

• ILL is costly & time-consuming to both parties

• Publishers often prohibit ILL contractually

• Document Delivery Services have rip-off fees

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• Open Access can be of greatest help• Gov doc (national & foreign) - Born to be free (OA)

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• Intergovernmental agencies (UNxxx, WHO, FAO, OECD)• Some publishers – using OA check-box (Elsevier, Wiley,

Springer [backdoor]• Bigger business, specific sites new/dedicated URLs

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Many scholarly & professional publishers

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Da best directory & search engine 10,000 journals, 60% with searchable articles, > ~ 2 million articles

• EBSCO – as content + service provider FT through UH automatic

• OA repositories

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Individual authors self archiving

• http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/pub.html• http://is.biu.ac.il/en/judit/• http://jlortega.scienceontheweb.net/papers.htm • http://www.jacso.info/PUB-list-by-years.htm