Independent institute to publish findings on "subscription versus document delivery

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(2001), "Independent institute to publish findings on "subscription versus document delivery", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 29 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilds.2001.12229cab.024

Independent institute to publish findings on "subscription versus document delivery"

Independent institute to publish findings on "subscription versus document delivery"

Keywords: Research, Document delivery, Subscriptions

A comprehensive research project has been undertaken by ingenta institute, with the active collaboration and support of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), covering "The relationship between journal subscriptions and document delivery and the impact of online delivery on article distribution".

The findings are to be published in three phases with the first phase, to be completed in May 2001, concentrating on "subscription versus document delivery". The second phase will focus on the "study of end user needs and behaviour in terms of electronic article delivery". The final phase will pull all the research and findings together to form an "integration and summary".

"The whole area of subscriptions, document delivery, interlibrary loan and consortia deals has become highly confusing and complex", comments Anthony Pearce, Chair of the ingenta institute. "There are no recent studies which bring all the issues together in an independent and impartial way. The ingenta institute aims to do this."

The year-long research project will form the basis of a meeting to be held at the Royal Society on 25 September in London and later this Autumn in Boston, USA. A report of the findings will be available to all interested parties by late 2001.

The ingenta institute is funded by, but wholly independent of, ingenta plc. For more information about the institute see http://www.ingenta.com/home/fs_ingentainstitute.htm

Source: News release