the impact of electronic journals on document delivery services
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Yaşar Tonta & Yurdagül Ünal
Department of Information Management
Hacettepe University tonta, [email protected]
yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~tonta/tonta.html
The Impact of Electronic Journals
on Document Delivery Services
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“The World is Flat”
• The impact of networks
• The death of distance
• Global competition– 1492-1800: Countries
globalizing– 1800-2000: Companies
globalizing
– 2000 ---: Individuals globalizing
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World Flatteners
• MS Windows• Netscape• Workflow• Open source software• . . .• The Steroids: Digital, mobile,
personal, and virtual
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Libraries as Virtual Destinations• Number of users physically visiting
libraries decreasing
• Yet the use of collections increasing
• Instant gratification– Napster, Kazaa, Docster
• Decline in the number of document delivery requests (16% - 80%)
• Vertical silos vs. virtual destinations
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Research Questions
• Is document “delivery” using traditional or electronic means becoming a withering practice in libraries?
• Would document delivery services exist as we know them today in the age of electronic journals, Big Deals, and library consortia?
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Method
• Turkish Academic Network and Information Center (ULAKBİM) (www.ulakbim.gov.tr ) – Provides networking infrastructure and – Networked information services for over 80 Turkish
universities– Has more than 10,000 journals with 23 years of
backruns– Spends 40% of its budget on e-journals
• Analysis of some 400,000 document delivery requests (2000-2005)
• The Consortium of Anatolian University Libraries (ANKOS) (www.ankos.gen.tr )
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Findings
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# of Items Supplied by ULAKBİM
16% decrease
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# of Items Supplied from E-journals
Qu
adrup
le increase
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# of Items Supplied by ULAKBİM
3% 8%16%
25% 33%
0
10000
20000
30000
40000
50000
60000
70000
2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05
Year
Num
ber
of it
ems
supp
lied
Print journalsElectronic journalsImpact of e-journals available
through consortium
Quadruple increase
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Fulfillment Rate for Academic DocDel Requests
21% decrease 11% decrease
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Demand & Fulfillment Rate for Academic Sector
34
7
-9-13
41
9
-7 -5
-20
-10
0
10
20
30
40
50
2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05
Year
Per
cen
tag
e o
f ch
ang
e (%
)
Requests Fulf illed requests
% of requests decreased more sharply % of fulfilled requests decreased more slowly
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Downloads vs. Document Delivery
84700006020238
2300000
751688796289945
10.000
100.000
1.000.000
10.000.000
2002 2003 2004
Year
Num
ber
of item
s (
logarith
mic
scale
)
Number of items dow nloaded by ANKOS members
Number of items requested from ULAKBİM
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Conclusions
• The impact of ANKOS and Big Deals
• High “cross-access” rates
• Low average unit costs– downloaded article: 1.22USD– document delivery: 4.00 USD (if available in-
house)
• More requests to current articles
• Core journals satisfied majority of document delivery requests
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Conclusions (cont’d)
• E-journals (with backruns), Big Deals, Consortia• Standard-based products
– Z39.50 for searching– ISO ILL Protocol for ILL communication– NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP) for
user-initiated circulation– Open URL to link directly to electronic resources
• Document delivery in the “Flat World”: A withering service?
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Yaşar Tonta & Yurdagül Ünal
Department of Information Management
Hacettepe University tonta, [email protected]
yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~tonta/tonta.html
The Impact of Electronic Journals
on Document Delivery Services