It would be pedagogically cool if you could turn on an interface to an index/abstract database that HID whether or not there was fulltext and available until after the abstract had been read, and the student had the opportunity to check a box adding the article to a shopping cart.
I've seen* this sort of thing done with MetaLib, where you'd find an interesting reference, and then you'd find out if it was available online, in hardcopy on campus, or was somewhere else.
At the two universities I've had regular dealings with in Australia, inter-library loans were only really available to the postgraduate students, and strictly regulated because it costs so much money, and of course the more obscure the article the longer it takes for it to show up, by which time the assignment would probably have ended. It is a cool idea though.
*I'm not a librarian, I just have had this experience as a user of various library systems.
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Date: 2008-09-10 07:33 am (UTC)I've seen* this sort of thing done with MetaLib, where you'd find an interesting reference, and then you'd find out if it was available online, in hardcopy on campus, or was somewhere else.
At the two universities I've had regular dealings with in Australia, inter-library loans were only really available to the postgraduate students, and strictly regulated because it costs so much money, and of course the more obscure the article the longer it takes for it to show up, by which time the assignment would probably have ended. It is a cool idea though.
*I'm not a librarian, I just have had this experience as a user of various library systems.