Transcript Document Deliverers

Document Deliverers
With so much on the Web, do we need them ?
Bruce Antelman
Information Express
[email protected]
Question
• Historically - large demand for Document
Delivery - purchase of individual journal
articles
• Now, with so much free on web - is there
still a need ?
Answer - Yes
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As long as best authors publish in for fee publications there will be a need to purchase articles - no library can
subscribe to everything - copyright in digital world is
stronger
Document Delivery is more than just Fetching an item every institution has special needs and requirements
Someone has to do it - as long as there is work to do
outsourcing may be less expensive
Changing Situation
• But.... the landscape is changing and the
need for Document Delivery may
transform
• Right now Doc Del is in the midst of
change from paper based to online
seamless delivery
Pre-Internet (Mediated)
Primary
Secondary
Interlibrary Loan
Free
Library
Author
Publisher
(Bibliographic
Databases)
Fee
Document Delivery
Reader
Early Internet (Unmediated)
Primary
Secondary
Interlibrary Loan
Free
Author
Publisher
Library
Fee
-Bibliographic Databases
-Document Delivery
Reader
Today
Primary
Secondary
Publisher
Library
Free
Author
Fee
-Publisher Web Sites
(all types of media)
Reader
Today
Primary
Secondary
-Open Access Titles
-Institutional
Depositories
Free
Author
Publisher
Fee
-Publisher Web Sites
(all types of media)
Library
Reader
Today
Primary
Secondary
-Open Access Titles
-Institutional
Depositories
Free
Author
Publisher
Library
Fee
-Publisher Web Sites
(all types of media)
-For Fee Bibliographic
Databases
-Recommender Services
Reader
Today
Primary
Secondary
-Open Access Titles
-Institutional
Depositories
-Free Bibliographic
Databases
-Web Page Databases
(Google/Yahoo etc.)
-Specialized Digital
Resource Databases
Free
Author
Publisher
Library
Fee
-Publisher Web Sites
(all types of media)
-For Fee Bibliographic
Databases
-Recommender Services
Reader
Today
Author
Web Sites
Primary
-Open Access Titles
-Institutional
Depositories
Secondary
-Free Bibliographic
-Free
Bibliographic
Databases
Databases
-Web
Page Databases
-Google/Yahoo etc.)
etc.
(Google/Yahoo
-Specialized Digital
Resource Databases
Free
Author
Publisher
Library
Fee
-Publisher Web Sites
(all types of media)
-For Fee Bibliographic
Databases
-Recommender Services
Reader
Where is Doc Del ?
Author
Web Sites
Primary
-Open Access Titles
-Institutional
Depositories
Secondary
-Free Bibliographic
Databases
-Free Bibliographic
-Web
Page Databases
Databases
Google/Yahoo
-Google/Yahoo
etc.
(Google/Yahooetc.
etc.)
-Specialized Digital
Resource Databases
Free
Author
Publisher
Library
Fee
-Publisher Web Sites
(all types of media)
-For Fee Bibliographic
Databases
-Recommender Services
Reader
Future of Document Delivery
• Gateways - integration into many
resources
• Invisible Doc Del - seamless immediate
delivery from all sources
• Beyond typical STM journals - to new
media and even free media
• Customized solutions - with standardized
processing
Pressures for Change
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Copyright fees for STM very high - ongoing tension
between publishers, libraries and authors
Newspapers and others starting to wean Internet Users
from free
Someone will always find a way to do it Faster and
Cheaper - Google & Amazon selling book chapters
could become ....
Is an iTunes for STM just around the corner ?
Conclusion
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As long as there are for fee publishers there will be
Document Delivery suppliers
Document Delivery may become “invisible” back-ends to
bibliographic databases and other services with a visible
“front end” for hard to find items
If the 100% of the STM world becomes free, Document
Delivery may disappear, & new types of interfaces, from
databases to referral systems & more will become
subscription based - will a transactional side to these tools
emerge ?
Document Deliverers
With so much on the Web, do we need them ?
Bruce Antelman
Information Express
[email protected]