Online journals: their impact on document delivery

Impact of Electronic Journals on Document Delivery Services

Collection management policies of libraries were mainly shaped by in-house use of materials in the past. Yet the emergence of electronic journals and their availability through publishers’ or aggregators’ web sites is changing this practice considerably. Libraries are no longer limited with the “one source – one user” model. This paper investigates the potential impact of the availability of el...

Online journals: impact on print journal usage.

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...

Online social networks and their Impact on Political Participation in Iran

Undoubtedly, the expansion of participation and competition among social groups in political lifeis one of the major goals of political development. Meanwhile, given the significant changes taken place in the socio-political life of societies, the traditional tools affecting political participation have somewhat weakened. Today, social networking sites are consideredas one of the most important...

On the impact of Online Social Networks in Content Delivery

Scatter of journals and literature obsolescence reflected in document delivery requests

This paper investigates the scatter of journals and literature obsolescence reflected in more than 137,000 document delivery requests submitted to a national document delivery service. The paper first summarizes the major findings of the study with regards to the performance of the service. It then identifies the " core " journals from which article requests were satisfied and addresses the fol...