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>Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 08:59:57 -0700 (PDT)
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>From: "Carol Ann Hughes" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: October 1 - Change in BLDSC pricing
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>X-Comment: RLG InterLibraries Loan Discussion Group.
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>SHARES,
>
> Many of you heard the British Library Document Supply Centre announce at
>ALA that they have had a change in policy for copyright charges. Instead of a
>flat fee, they are now going to charge whatever the publisher requires. In
>many cases this is less than the earlier flat fee, but it does vary
>depending upon the publisher.
>
> RLG's agreement with the BLDSC for requests made over RLIN for
>document supply from items in the BOOKS or SERIALS file will conform to this
>change in policy beginning OCTOBER 1, 1996. At that time BLDSC will also
>change their pricing for photocopies to $9 PER EVERY INCREMENT OF 10 PAGES.
>The price for loans from the BLDSC will remain the same. The end result of
>changing the photocopy and copyright fees may or may not be an increase in
>total cost.
>
> To check on the copyright fee for a particular serial, consult
>the British Library's WWW page at: http://portico.bl.uk
>after September 1, 1996.
>
>Remember:
>
>1. BLDSC will supply all copies by Ariel (except for
>institutions who do not yet have Ariel).
>
>2. If the request arrives by 8am in the UK they will supply same day
>processing; i.e. the request will be out "the door" by 5pm that day.
>
>3. Cost for all articles will be $9.00 for each 10 pages copies plus a
>copyright fee. Cost for loans will be $22.50.
>
>4. Billing will be through established BLDSC accounts with adequate balance
>of funds. If you wish to establish a new account with the BLDSC, contact:
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>5. Shipment of loans will be by 1st class airmail.
>Normal loan period is 4 weeks from date of receipt. The
>BLDSC has instituted a ban on loans of some titles in Inside
>Information file in order to facilitate supply of photocopy
>requests. They'll let you know if the title you wish to obtain
>is affected by this ban.
>
>6. The BLDSC "shelfmark" (call number) for the proceedings
>goes into the US MARC holdings field. One of this year's enhancements for
>RLIN ILL is the capacity to "TRA" US MARC holdings into ILL records.
>This should speed BLDSC processing of requests.
>
>7. You can order items from the BLDSC even if the record is
>not in RLIN. You may be interested in their list of serials
>(accessible over the WWW at: http://portico.bl.uk) or in their
>files of British report literature and official publications.
>
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> Guidelines for sending requests to BLDSC
>
> provided by Mick Osborne
>
>
>The BLDSC satisfied from its own stock almost 90% of all requests
>it receives. However, there are certain types of material which
>we do not hold or only hold very selectively. Requests for such
>materials should, therefore, not be sent to us or only on the
>understanding that there is little chance of success.
>
>It should also be remembered that the British Library, broadly
>speaking, has two collections: a reference collection held at a
>number of locations in London and an ILL/document delivery
>collection held at Boston Spa in the North of England. While
>some items in the reference collections can be copied or loaned,
>at present this is only done on a small scale. It should,
>therefore, not be assumed that because an item is cataloged by
>the British Library, it is automatically available for
>ILL/document delivery. On the other hand, virtually everything
>held at BLDSC is available for loan (with restrictions on some
>recent serial issues and some US microfiche collections, e.g. UMI
>dissertations and ASI/CIS publications) or copying, subject, of
>course, to the relevant copyright legislation and licensing.
>
>The BLDSC's general acquisitions policy is:
>
> To collect "worthwhile" literature of a reasonable academic
> standard (undergraduate level and above) to meet the needs
> of higher education, industry, commerce and the professions
> and research organisations.
>
>Serials make up the core of our collections. 47,000 titles
>currently received, a further 170,000 which have ceased
>publication, changed title or which we no longer subscribe to.
>Although particularly strong in English language science,
>technology and medicine, the collection in fact covers all
>subjects and languages.
>
>We have about three million books, mainly English language,
>covering all subjects. Although particularly strong in STM books
>published over the last 35 years, our holdings in other subjects
>and of pre-1960 books are good.
>
>Our collection of over 300,000 conference proceedings, again
>covering all subjects and languages, is one of the best in the
>world. Our comprehensive indexing makes it relatively easy for
>us to track down individual proceedings from a minimal amount of
>information.
>
>Other types of material of which we have significant collections
>include:
>
>* grey literature, including reports, translations and
> dissertations;
>* Official publications, especially those published by HMSO
>and the European Community;
>
>* UK local authority publications;
>
>* Serials and books (mainly STM) in the Slavonic languages;
>
>* Many serials, reports and conferences published in the Far
>East in a number of oriental languages, on a wide range of
>subjects;
>
>* Music scores. For copyright reasons these are normally only
>available for loan.
>
>Categories of material to be avoided are:
>
>* Fiction. Although we do hold some works of fiction
>(acquired primarily for the critical commentaries on the text)
>the success rate would be minimal unless a customer knew in
>advance that we held a particular work.
>
>* Pre-1801 books of any kind. All books published before 1801
>are held in the British Library's reference collections in London
>and are not available for loan. Issues of many journals
>published before 1801 are, however, held and can be copied or
>loaned. Copies of some early books are held in microform but no
>full listing is available at present.
>
>* Foreign language books. These are collected very selectively
>and only in response to demand.
>
>* Low level or popular books and magazines.
>
>*` Basic textbooks.
>
>* Newspapers. Some are taken by BLDSC, but the main
>collection is held at the British Library Newspaper Library in
>London.
>
>* Manuscripts. We do hold some microfiche research
>collections but it is only worth requesting if it is known that
>we hold a particular collection.
>
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