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...

There is a great deal of interest in electronic document delivery at the present time. This paper examines electronic document delivery and one of the many problems which it raises, that of standardisation. The paper details the development and proposals of one standard, GEDI, and gives details of a pilot demonstration of the standard in four European countries.

This paper reports on a study designed to investigate Subito document delivery of the Austrian Central Library for Physics. After an introduction to Subito and the Austrian Central Library for Physics, the study covers the following topics: • Application of concentration laws to document delivery