MIME Types for Use with the ISO ILL Protocol Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This memorandum describes a set of MIME types for use with the ISO Interlibrary Loan Protocol (ISO 10160/10161). Two MIME types are specified below. The first is a media ...

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...

The value of big deals is increasingly unclear. This article briefly discusses factors others have considered in evaluating and covers the four that should be moving forward: open access, interlibrary loan, post-termination a-la-carte costs. Unsub, a tool for reevaluating created by nonprofit OurResearch, introduced. Lessons learned are shared from two years helping libraries reevaluate to prov...

PURPOSE The research sought to determine the impact of online journals on the use of print journals and interlibrary loan (ILL). SETTING The Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria is a regional site of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Library with a print journal collection of approximately 400 titles. Since 1999, UIC site licenses have given students and faculty affiliated with UIC...