1,000th customer signs up for British Library's secure electronic delivery service

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(2004), "1,000th customer signs up for British Library's secure electronic delivery service", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 32 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilds.2004.12232dab.017

1,000th customer signs up for British Library's secure electronic delivery service

1,000th customer signs up for British Library’s secure electronic delivery service

The British Library’s new secure electronic delivery service is doing well …World Cancer Research Fund International (WCRF International) has become the 1,000th customer to sign up for the British Library’s ground-breaking secure electronic delivery service (SED). Launched in December 2003, the SED service enables users to get copies of virtually anything from the library’s collections sent straight to their desktop, within two hours if needed, or instantly if the material is already available electronically. WCRF International is one of the many thousands of global customers in the science and technology fields using the library’s collections to support research and development. Working in collaboration with Relais International, Adobe and Elsevier, the library invested over £2 million developing the SED service, and was the first organisation to offer a fully copyright compliant SED service. The service gives customers fast access to over 100 million items. This means that almost anything from the library’s huge collections – whether born digital, in print or in microform can be sent straight to users’ desktops. During 40 years at the forefront of document supply, the library has delivered over 100 million documents. The library’s collection includes over 280,000 journal titles, 50 million patents, 5 million reports, 476,000 US dissertations and 433,000 conference proceedings. It also houses one of the world’s best selections of US government documents, and a collection of over 2,000 miles of microfilm – including NASA and NTIS reports and congressional hearings. The whole collection is truly international with over 30 per cent published in the USA and 70 per cent of total stock collected from outside the UK.

Source: British Library Press release, 8 July.