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Viewpoint: open access – a nail in the coffin of ILL?

Mike McGrath (Leeds, UK)

Interlending & Document Supply

ISSN: 0264-1615

Article publication date: 11 November 2014

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to identify the arguments for the survival of interlibrary lending (ILL) in an open access environment.

Design/methodology/approach

Viewpoint – a brief narrative.

Findings

That ILL will survive!

Originality/value

Useful in being one of the few (only?) articles to counter the widespread assumption ‘that everything is free on the web’, thus leading to the demise of ILL.

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Citation

McGrath, M. (2014), "Viewpoint: open access – a nail in the coffin of ILL?", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 42 No. 4, pp. 196-198. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILDS-07-2014-0035

Publisher

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2014, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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