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Clicking on the SFX button takes you to a screen that shows where the full text can be found. Clicking on this link takes you to the online journal.
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GIL USERS GROUP MEETINGMay 20, 2004
Impact on Interlibrary Loan
Katharine CalhounGeorgia Tech Library
SFX software links online database citations to the full text of a library’s electronic journals.
Ceramic Abstracts
Clicking on the SFX button takes you to a screenthat shows where the full text can be found. Clicking
on this link takes you to the online journal.
ILL example #1 Medline
SFX searches GIL catalog by ISSN. No matches.
Patron chooses ILL option.
SFX transferscitation
informationto online ILL
form.
WorldCat record shows that GeorgiaTech owns this. Click on SFX.
ILL example #2
Patron chooses to searchthe catalog.
SFX did not find item in GT catalog.
Separate search in GT catalog retrieves record.
Patron chooses ILL option.
ILL request ismade for
item already owned
by GT Library.
ILL example #3 Environmental Sciences & Pollution Mgmt.
Patron chooses ILL option.
Too littlecitation
informationtransferred.
Database namedifficult to determine.
Impact of SFX on ILL @ Georgia Tech:
•Increased workload - rough estimate of 20% - 25% increase in copy requests for fall 2003 vs. fall 2002
•Additional staff time spent verifying incomplete citations
•Additional staff time spent in communication with the requestor if the Library already owns the item
