RE: Supplying electronic articles via ILL

["Ivy Anderson" <Ivy.Anderson@ucop.edu>]

The California Digital Library's standard license agreement also 
includes electronic ILL by default - our provision is similar to 
NELLCO's.

We have been successful in many instances - the number of 
publishers who are prepared to 'go green' is happily increasing. 
However there is still more work to do on this front.  This 
remains a key issue for our interlibrary loan departments.

Prohibitions against electronic ILL do not discourage 
interlibrary lending (the primary reason that publishers give for 
this anachronistic restriction) because the burden affects the 
lender, not the borrower. It's the CONTU provisions that serve as 
a brake against ILL as a replacement for subscription.  Worries 
about articles flying around the globe are also unfounded because 
there are already ample avenues for this to happen compared with 
which ILL is hardly noticeable.  Rather, publishers should 
consider that such policies affect our subscription decisions 
when difficult choices need to be made and that the more costly 
it is for libraries to fulfill their interlibrary-lending 
responsibilities, the less money we will have for subscriptions 
in these challenging times.

We encourage all publishers who are listening to join us in going 
green!

Ivy Anderson
Director of Collections
California Digital Library
University of California, Office of the President