British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC)
Publisher
Various (hundreds of different publishers, over 20,000 journals)
License Agreed
Country-wide for all not-for-profit libraries, research and learning institutes. Please note that libraries using this service are required to keep copies of the user request form for six years.
Service Type
Online Document Delivery Service (articles delivered are PDF versions which may be printed but not forwarded or saved).
Content
The world's largest collection devoted to the provision of remote document delivery covering every aspect of science, technology, medicine and humanities, in many languages.
Libraries and Institutions should use this service to obtain those documents which they cannot obtain using other PERI resources. This service must only be used for ordering photocopies of documents and PERI will not support requests for loans of books and other materials.
About the British Library
The British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC) collection is probably the world's largest devoted to the provision of remote document delivery. It covers every aspect of scientific, technical, medical and human knowledge, in many languages. It holds journals, books, conferences, reports, patents, theses, official publications, music scores and images. Users can obtain a copy for research or private study of any article in the 260,000 journal titles held by The British Library or the 400,000 conference proceedings. The BL also features a core collection of 20,000 of the world's leading peer-reviewed and learned journals.
PERii will support the use of the BL's International Non-Commercial Document Supply (INCD) Service for online document ordering. This service delivers PDF documents to a central email address where they should be printed and passed to the end user. More flexible services will be introduced later in 2012.
Content in this service
Contains over 20,000 leading research journals plus access to over 400,000 conference proceedings and other periodicals.
Subject Strengths
- the British Library is the national repository for the UK and contains copies of almost every publication generated within the UK and beyond
- this resources contains all research disciplines
Service Strengths
- access to over 20,000 leading peer-reviewed titles in all disciplines
- allows for comprehensive document searching online through the British Library Direct service and through the British Library online catalogue
- documents ordered are usually delivered within 5-8 days
Registration
There is no need to register. To order documents from the British Library, libraries and research institutes should contact their PERI Country Coordinator - see your country page for contact details.
Website for Further Information
http://direct.bl.uk/bld/Home.do
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/atyourdesk/docsupply/index.html
Further Information for Country Coordinators
Placing an Order
1. Check to see if the Title you want to order is available under INCD.
2. Ensure end user completes the Annual End User Statement. (This needs to be completed only once for each nd user on an annual basis). Please complete the appropriate form depending on the nature of your institution:
a. Government
b. Educational
3. Ensure end user completes the Transactional End User Statement (This must be completed by the end user for every request).
Please complete the appropriate form depending on the nature of your institution:
a. Government
b. Educational
4. Complete the order form
Receiving your Order and Delivering to the End-User
1. Articles are delivered as encrypted PDFs and are fully copyright compliant.
Users are required to have FileOpen, a small, freely downloadable software application, to open these documents.
For more information, please visit our FileOpen page.
2. When you received your file, print one copy only and give to the end user. You may not forward the email to the end user. This will be in breach of the INCD Terms & Conditions.
3. Other forms of delivery (e.g. paper, electronic forwarded directly to the end-user) will be introduced later in 2012.