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The purpose of this paper is to summarize the current Korean copyright law and its effect on electronic document delivery services in Korea, and to recommend solutions for Korean libraries and information centers.

The authors present information based on their own professional experience at a national document supply center.

Korean libraries have five options for pursuing copyright clearance for materials published outside of Korea: negotiate an agreement directly with publishers; establish an agreement with, and pay royalties to, copyright collectives; establish bilateral treaties with national copyright collectives; establish a framework agreement with the organizations representing copyright holders; and incorporate extended collective licensing into the Korean copyright law.

The Korean copyright law was amended in 2011 and this paper presents the most current research on the law's impact on electronic document delivery services in Korea.

The purpose of this article is to introduce the KISTI document delivery service, to describe its collaboration with national and international institutions, and to explore the way KISTI develops and extends international cooperation.

The article describes the work of KISTI and draws on the transaction data of documents delivered by KISTI.

Resource sharing through national and international cooperation is becoming of increasing importance in Korea. KISTI operates its document delivery service at three levels: inNIDS, netNIDS, and globalNIDS. KISTI is the focal point in Korea for the delivery of domestic knowledge to other countries.

One of the few articles to deal in detail with the services provided by KISTI – the Korean global document delivery service.