Mr Mike McGrath, the editor of Interlending and Document Supply Journal, who will be providing an overview of current state of affairs on Resource Sharing and Document supply across the world.

Abstract

Mike McGrath will cover the current state of play in document supply and related developments. The paper will draw on the Literature Review that he writes as editor of Interlending & Document Supply. This review is based on the reading of over 150 LIS journals, as well as websites, etc. Areas covered in the paper will include copyright, end user empowerment, open access, journal usage, big deals, mass digitisation and generally the trend in document supply worldwide. He will draw on his experience of marketing document supply at the British Library, as well as editing ILDS for the last five years.