The Effect of Mass Purchase on Document Supply Service at South Korean Medical Libraries
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Eun-Ja Shin
The appearance of KESLI (Korea Electronic Site License Initiative), an electronic journals consortium, has allowed South Korean medical libraries to expand the availability of foreign academic journals dramatically. The growth in subscription journals has had a considerable impact on various library services, especially document supply service (DSS). Many studies have already reported that DSS has decreased as a result of electronic journal bundles provided by consortia, but this study shows the matter in a new light. The author performed an analysis to verify the direction that DSS has moved in the past five years at South Korean medical libraries, especially among KMLA (Korean Medical Library Association) members. Even though consortial purchasing has become the general practice, results show that DSS for 2006 was approximately 11% higher than for 2002. But we have to take note of the findings that DSS in these libraries has not increased from 2004, and has even decreased. In particular, DSS for 2006 decreased 43% as the volume peaked in 2003. Mass purchase by the consortium may be playing a great role in bringing about the decline in DSS. As mass purchase allows users to access not only current issues but also back issues anytime and anywhere, users can easily get needed articles that in the past could only be accessed by requesting copies from other libraries.
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