The Health Sciences Libraries Consortium (HSLC) was established in 1985 by thirteen founding member institutions in Pennsylvania and Delaware. In 1989, the Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery, and Union List Task Force, appointed by the HSLC Board of Directors, successfully demonstrated the feasibility of supplying 94% of all interlibrary loan (ILL) photocopy requests in forty-eight hours or l...

An overview of financial, staffing and administrative issues regarding online literature searching and document supply is given in this article. Online literature searching and the requesting of documents have been problematic in the past due to costs and lack of information technology. Electronic document delivery requires better Internet access but MIME compatible e-mail can be used. Institut...

n the past twenty years, information technology has radically transformed I the way librarians and information scientists search the literature. Computerized indexing methods have made it possible to retrieve bibliographies on virtually any topic in a matter of minutes. This immediate access to bibliographic information is clearly a harbinger of the approaching information age. Many are enthusi...

As the amount of information available to people multiplies at an increasing speed, it becomes ever more important to deliver information customised to users’ specific needs. Natural Language Generation systems coupled with user modeling techniques have been built to address this issue, to produce information that is relevant to the users . A common approach adopted by such systems is an approa...

Health sciences libraries that provide fee-based information services must consider and develop policies and procedures for complying with legal requirements. This paper reviews the provisions of copyright law that pertain to document delivery, including two court decisions concerning copyright. Also discussed are recent actions by publishers to reinforce their view of libraries' responsibiliti...

Abstract: In this paper we present a framework for the progressive delivery of Web documents in mobile Internet services. Progressive delivery enables users to get fast access to the most relevant parts of a document. Given the reduced bandwidth and the high costs of mobile communication the idea of progressive delivery offers a promising improvement especially for mobile e-services. The centra...

this project aims at collecting and cataloging the information pertaining to the research projects and documents concerning water resource. the data collected along with abstracts were entered into worksheets in compliance with us- marc bibliographic format. they were fed into the computer following the necessary validation process. so far more than 5000 documents (proceedings, research report,...

The article discusses an Ariel document delivery project with seven Maine hospital libraries, the University of Massachusetts Medical School Library (UMass), and the New England Regional office of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Funding was awarded to six network members to purchase equipment or Ariel software. UMass served as a document provider. During the test, libraries recei...