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

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.

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