The Executive Council of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP), Association of American Publishers (AAP), has endorsed a new cross-border licensed document delivery service for educational uses developed by the British Library.
Launching January 1, 2012, the International Non-Commercial Document Supply Service (INCD) represents a three-way agreement between the British Library, publishers who choose to contract with the service, and qualifying, authorised not-for-profit libraries. The framework will enable these publishers and libraries to cooperatively provide copyrighted journal articles to the libraries' users, such as students, faculty and researchers, for non-commercial research or private study.
The INCD agreement was developed by the British Library in cooperation with the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) and the UK Publishers Association. Articles will be available at a fee below the normal commercial rate and accessible globally on a rapid basis. The British Library will monitor, maintain compliance for and govern the supply of journal article copies licensed by end users globally. The agreement specifies an annual cap in the number of items: nine articles from a journal's annual volume(s) or nine items published in the same book or work — that may be delivered to the same institution. This new service is distinct from publishers' and the British Library's commercial document delivery activities.
Earlier this week, the British Library signed an agreement with publishers Elsevier and Taylor and Francis for document delivery outside the UK to non-commercial researchers. The agreement governs the supply of copies of articles from the British Library's Document Supply Service to non-commercial end users via not-for-profit libraries outside the UK.
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