Catch 22;Libraries in theAge of Sharing

Seang-ILL PeterBaePrincetonUniversityLibrary

May20th 2016TheLLA3rd Conference

A Library Conference is a Librarians’ Party. Wework hard but we party harder.

I have aquestion. Pleasehelpme toanswerwithyour thoughts andexperiences.

What canor should librariesdowith illegalsharing ofacademicresources such as

SCI-HUBor #icanhazPDF?

Libraries: sharing before sharing was cool.

Internet helps us to share our knowledge fasterand more efficiently. However, what about the

quality of information we share on theInternet?

Peter Steiner, publishedbyThe NewYorker on July 5, 1993.

“Everything is onthe Internet andeverything on theInternet is free.”

When a decisionmaker believesthis, we are in adeep trouble.

“Sharing isGood. Let’s share everything !”

Early Interlibrary Loan System

8th centurymanuscriptsharedby

GermanMonastery

Libraries

Interlibrary Loan

betweenmedieval

Cordova(Spain) and Bagdad.

International Interlibrary Loan

1883: Austria grants Intl. ILL1900: Library of Congress1910s:Royal Library of Berlin-6,500 to 12,000 loan annually.

Atypical day ofan ILLOffice;booksreceivedfromother libraries.

Borrowing top5 Lending top5

U.Pennsylvania 106,494 U.Minnesota 131,918

OhioState 95,791 U.Wisconsin 125.502

YaleU. 87,135 OhioState 106,507

U.Wisconsin 81,149 U.Illinois,Urbana 86,226

WashingtonU. 75,889 ColoradoU. 82,629

From 2013-2014 ARL)Association ofResearch Libraries( Statistics

We try hard but some users, either do not know about ourservice or maybe they are not satisfied with what we offer. So they started…

• Whenyou need an articlewhich you cannot get access,send a message on twitterwith hashtag, #icanhazPDF.

• Then someonewho can accessthe article “may” send you thefile.

• After received the file, deletethe twitter message.

• Not always the user cannotaccess but…

OriginalURLhttp://scihub.ioisnotworkingbutthroughitsTwitteraccountandFacebookaccount,youcaneasilyfinda

workingURLorIPaddress.

• Created in 2011 by a scholar fromKazakhstan, Alexandra Elbakyan; areaction to high paywall.

• More than 5 million articles available.• Elbakyan claims, “access credentialsare donated by scholars.”

• DOI• Article Title• Publisher’s URL of Article• If SCI-HUB has article, immediate PDFaccess, otherwise, tries to download itfrom a library.

• Founder: ”remove all barriers in the way ofscience.”

• Publishers: “This is a clear piracy ofcopyrightedmaterials. I’ll sue you, let’stalk at the court” and they did.

• Librarians: “Hmm…this is an illegal activity. But I understandwhy they did it.”

• Users:”I need that article and I need it now. Since I use it for my research, this is not acriminal act.”

What Authors say:

"I’m torn in the sense I think it would be better for thescience community if findings weremade freelyavailable," he says. "But I’m not sure how to sustainfunctions of society journals."

“I never felt people were pirating my work”

"I feel work paid for with public money should be openfor free”

*WhatDotheAuthorsofSci-Hub’sMost-DownloadedArticlesThinkAboutSci-Hub?(2016,May13).RetrievedMay16,2016,fromhttp://chronicle.com/article/What-Do-the-Authors-of/236469/

Bohannon, J. )2016(. Who’s downloadingpirated papers?

Everyone. Science. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf5664

By everyone, from

everywhere(with Internet)

5,586downloadfromBeirutareainsixmonthperiod.

MostdownloadedarticleisfromInternationalConferenceonSimulationofSemiconductorProcessesandDevices.

SomeConcerns;

• Enduseragreementandlibrarieslicense

agreement;legalissues.

• Journalsubscriptioncostcanincrease.

• Morecumbersomelogonprocess.

• PatronPrivacyandnetworksecurity.

WHYour patrons use SCI-HUB?

Necessity

Convenience

Discovery toDelivery; Library

Discovery toDelivery; Library

Discovery toDelivery; Library

Discovery toDelivery; Library

Discovery toDelivery; SCI-HUB

Discovery toDelivery; SCI-HUB

Canwe, the library, createa SCI-HUBlikeD2D system(aDis+liverysystem)?

If ourusers start their research from

Google,not fromthe librarywebpage,

then canwefollowthem towhere they

areas a librarybookmarketorweb-browseradd-on?(i.e.ArticleGalaxyWidgetbyRePrint

Desk. http://info.reprintsdesk.com/widget101)

Howtomake‘dis+livery’ systemworking

for the resource sharingservice?

Whatabout if youcanget anarticle from

another institutiononeclickaway?

RapidILL

RapidILL

• AWebbased service which ownsmember

libraries’ serial holding info(including e-jnlholdings).

• Requests coming with a standard number will

be sent automatically to possible lenders.• Article can be sent through RapidX delivery

system.• Once article is received,borrowing library sends

arrival notice automatically to the user.

Illegal immediacyvs. legal twohours

Moredifficult issue isnot technologybutworking togetherwithotherplayers

in thescholarly communicationlandscape.

Necessity issues:High cost of journals anddifficultiesinCross-Border Resource sharing

Domestic ILL vs. Cross-Border ILL

What ifAlexandraElbakyan’s Library hadoffereda simpleandeasy ILL services?

Asimpleand fast ILL service, includinganactivecross-border ILL is a crucial support

for researchers.

WecannotpreventSCI-HUB likewebsitecompletelybut ifweprovide a fastandconvenientwayofgettingresources forscholars?

IFLA isworkingactivelyatWIPOSCCR(StandingCommitteeonCopyrightandRelatedRights) toachievethecopyright exemptionsfor the librariesandarchives. Weneedyour story.

Meanwhile, here are somehelps for your ILLWorks.

• ShareILL: http://shareill.org• IFLADDRS(DocumentDelivery andResourceSharing

Section) Ask Expert: http://www.ifla.org/docdel• VariousMailing List: DOC-DEL-L, ILL-L• ILLers; a FB Group For Interlibrary Loan Librarians

https://www.facebook.com/groups/172179662942180/

Let’s remember, we are all librarians, the same

spices, regardless where wework. So let’s share our resources and ideas.

Let’s remember, we are all librarians, the same

spices, regardless where wework. So let’s share our resources and ideas.