Nonprofit organisation Association of Research Libraries (ARL), US, has announced that its board has affirmed that it is the right of North American research libraries to participate in international interlibrary loan (ILL) and document delivery activities. The decision was taken at ARL's spring 2011 meeting.
Over the past year, questions have been raised concerning the current ILL practices of some US research libraries. In particular, the focus is on the delivery of resources from US libraries to non-US libraries. US copyright law supports the ability of domestic libraries to participate in ILL arrangements and to send copies of copyrighted works to foreign libraries provided the libraries meet the requirements of the law.
The ARL Task Force Report on International Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Practices is available in the June issue of Research Library Issues (RLI).
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