Re: Supplying electronic articles via ILL: The "print-first" requirement

["Tracy L. Thompson-Przylucki" <tracy.thompson@yale.edu>]

Hi Elizabeth,

NELLCO's standard license agreement expressly permits electronic 
ILL and does not have any print-first requirement. Here's the 
relevant section:

"Interlibrary Loan. Licensee may fulfill occasional requests from 
other institutions (by mail, fax or electronic transmissions), a 
practice commonly called Interlibrary Loan. Licensee agrees to 
fulfill such requests in compliance with Section 108 of the 
United States Copyright Law (17 USC 108, Limitations on exclusive 
rights: Reproduction by libraries and archives) and the 
Guidelines for the Proviso of Subsection 108(2g)(2) prepared by 
the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted 
Works."

What is the vendor/publisher justification behind a print-first 
requirement? I would think this would be the perfect time to make 
an argument for a change given the savings that could be realized 
by the fulfilling library as well as the fact that it's not a 
very earth-friendly practice.

Libraries are pushing for vendor/publishers to implement green 
practices and the print-first requirement really flies in the 
face of that goal.

Could you summarize your responses for the list? I know I'd like 
to see what's happening on this front with e-ILL.

Cheers,

Tracy L. Thompson-Przylucki, Executive Director
New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO)
Keene, New Hampshire 03431
www.nellco.org
tracy.thompson@yale.edu

At 10:06 PM 5/13/2009, you wrote:

>At Georgia Tech, we've recently begun (where permitted) 
>supplying articles that we subscribe to in electronic format as 
>part of the RAPID ILL program.  Since most of our licenses 
>require that we print off articles before scanning and sending, 
>we are going through a lot of paper and toner.  Our head of ILL 
>has read on the RAPID listserv that other libraries simply 
>download the PDFs directly from the ejournals to a flash drive 
>and then upload them to send.
>
>This means either that they've got very generous licenses or 
>they're ignoring the print-first requirement.  I'm curious as to 
>how many of you regularly, successfully negotiate the 
>"print-first" requirement out of your license agreements.
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Elizabeth L. Winter
>Electronic Resources Coordinator
>Collection Acquisitions & Management
>Library and Information Center
>Georgia Institute of Technology
>email: elizabeth.winter@library.gatech.edu