Report
Trends and Issues in Document Delivery - Document Delivery Interest Group
Speakers: M. Kay Mowery, University of Georgia; Alesia McManus, University of Maryland; Jim Ward, CISTI
Kay presented a personal nostalgic narrative describing the effects of technological developments from 1959-2001 on document delivery services provided through her branch library located at a remote agricultural research facility.
Alesia reported on an e-journal survey conducted at the U. of Maryland in Spring 2000. The survey had a 19.42% overall rate of return. Overall result suggests that there is support among respondents to cancel the print subscriptions and replace them with electronic subscriptions. The top five conditions identified for supporting cancellations of print journals are: permanent archiving and access, satisfactory figures and support; linking from databases, and faster release of articles.
Jim discussed the issues of control, availability, accessibility, reliability and technical requirements associated with desktop delivery of articles. He alluded to the models of desktop delivery as centering around aggregators, publishers, subscriptions and pay per view. He stated that the delivery of articles will be as image (TIFF, PDF) attached to emails or as images posted to a web server. He concluded that anything is possible with agreement from publishers.
report by Luti Salisbury
Original conference site design by Karen Stanley Grigg adapted by Carla Casler
Updated August 21, 2006