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New Challenges for the Subscription Service at the IALS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Alice Hamilton
Alice Hamilton
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Several past articles have discussed how a document supply service for practitioners was established at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), and the factors encountered in its running (Gee 1999; Gee & Whittle 1996). This article by Alice Hamilton, the Legal Information Services Manager (Subscription Services) there discusses some of the issues facing the future of the document supply service, particularly within the context of our primary function at the Institute as an academic research library.
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First, here is a quick recap for those not familiar with the Library and the Document Supply Service. The Institute Library is a postgraduate academic research library, known for its collections of foreign and international law, particularly Commonwealth law. The main funding for the Institute and its library comes from HEFC. However, in our experience, the collections need to be available to practitioners. Lawyers may not always be willing or able to visit the library in person so a commercial document supply service was devised in the early 1990s, to meet a legal need and to help serve the administration of justice. A significant side-effect of the document supply service has become its ability to generate income to supplement the annual grant from HEFC. The workings of the scheme are set out fully in Gee (1999) but, in outline, practitioners must Join the Library as subscribers and are then able to access our priced document supply service. Full details are available at http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/iservice/iservice.htm.

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Research Article
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , Winter 2001 , pp. 28 - 31
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2001

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