Academia and document supply: unsustainable contradictions at INIST?. Issue 3 (17th August 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Berard, Raymond; Fleuret, Etienne; Gillet, Jacqueline; Mougel, Jean-Yves
• Is Part Of: Interlending and document supply. Volume 43:Issue 3(2015)
• Page Start: 131
• Page End: 137
• Publication Date: 2015-08-17
• Subjects: Interlibrary loans -- Periodicals; Library cooperation -- Periodicals; Document delivery -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 025.62
• DOI: 10.1108/ILDS-05-2015-0017
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0264-1615

Abstract

<abstract> <title> <x content-type="archive" xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <sec> <title content-type="abstract-heading">Purpose</title> <p> – The purpose of the paper is to describe the current situation at the Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST) the French document supply centre after their difficulties with open access articles during 2013. </p> </sec> <sec> <title content-type="abstract-heading">Design/methodology/approach</title> <p> – A narrative and analytical explanation by the director of INIST. </p> </sec> <sec> <title content-type="abstract-heading">Findings</title> <p> – That INIST will no longer service the commercial sector and will provide documents to researchers in CNRS for free and priced to French higher education establishments. The growth in open access will mean that INIST is ceasing to be an industrial scale operation and will be concerned primarily with "long tail" requests. </p> </sec> <sec> <title content-type="abstract-heading">Originality/value</title> <p> – Certainly, the only account in English of the difficulties that INIST has faced in the past three years and how they have been dealt with.</p> </sec> </abstract>