RE: Interlibrary loans from other institutions' electronic databases?

[Barbara Fister <fister@xxxxxxx>]

At 08:54 AM 9-24-2004 -0500, Blobaum, Paul wrote:
> John,
>
> I don't know of one single library who provides Interlibrary Loan articles 
> from their full text aggregated database subscriptions. <snip>

I do. As Edward Barrow pointed out, this is negotiable. A large STM digital 
bundle contract negotiated in my state included provision for fair use of 
those materials because the land grant institution who was acquiring it 
(using tax dollars) has the guts to insist on retaining its role as the 
state's research collection.

Personally, I'm following NIH's leadership on open access with great 
interest and hoping we are at a true watershed moment for renegotiating 
access to tax-supported research. If that part of the political economy of 
information is made more rational, it could have a beneficial effect 
throughout the industries. For example, if my book budget weren't 
continually eroded by my serials price increases, I could buy more books 
and that might mean fewer university presses closed their doors.

Barbara Fister