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"Do-It-Yourself" Document Delivery
Available Through Library Liaisons
Babbidge Library staff, working with Ebsco Document Service and faculty from the departments of Engineering, Psychology, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Molecular & Cell Biology, and Physiology & Neurobiology, have been experimenting with unmediated ("do it yourself") document delivery services for nearly two years. The library is now expanding access to this service to eligible faculty and graduate students system-wide.
Through Ebsco Document Service, faculty and graduate students can order journal articles, conference papers, and patents directly from the vendor, having them delivered to the address of their choice by fax, US mail, or with special software provided by the library, by Ariel or e-mail. Ariel is an internet fax without telephone charges that provides enhanced turn-around time and image resolution. Ariel stations are installed at Babbidge, all regional campus libraries, the Pharmacy Library, and in several departments on the Storrs campus. The e-mail delivery option is still under development and works only with specific hardware and software configuration. Information about the e-mail/image viewer configuration exists on the Libraries' website /(www.lib.uconn.edu) along with instructions for accessing and installing the software. Material may also be shipped to the library and picked up there.
When the need is urgent, Ebsco Express, a 24-hour turn-around service, will provide any document available at UC Berkley. Subscribers also may search the entire Ebsco database and order from it with slightly increased turn-around time, depending on the difficulty of acquiring the document. The Ebsco database is heavily oriented to the physical sciences. Participants who are unable to locate needed items there may request them using the University Libraries' document delivery web forms, available at the library homepage. There, they will find a copy-and-paste e-mail form.
Ebsco Document Service (known locally as UDOC) is currently subsidized by the University Libraries as one aspect of the development of the access library model. Subscribers are limited to 100 requests per fiscal year. Interested faculty and registered graduate students may sign up for the service through their departmental Library Liaison, who will set up registration and training sessions for individuals. If your department has no Library Liaison, you can also register by stopping by the Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan Office in Babbidge Library. For more information please contact Robert Vrecenak (hbladm12@uconnvm.uconn.edu; 486-4974).
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