Instructions for New Members

PROCESS OUTLINE

1. Individual responsible must ensure their institution is a member of ISTEC.

Not a member? Join ISTEC at http://www.istec.org/joining/join.html

2. Membership fee must be paid for current year.

3. Request Ariel software at http://www.rlg.org/ariel/ariprice.html at established price, install on appropriate workstation with unique IP address.

4. Fill out the Link to Digital Library Linkages Application Form

5. Digital Library Linkages personnel at CSEL/UNM will contact you for testing and training.

6. Begin electronic document delivery.

Other info about ISTEC Digital Library Linkages:

What are the copyright implications for third-party suppliers of Electronic articles?
ISTEC/Digital Library Linkages has only one third-party supplier for articles we do not have in our own collections. That is the Canada Institute for Science & Technology Information (CISTI) and we pay royalties or copyright fees on items requested from them. When we copy from our own library collections and send an electronic version to LIBRARY, not an individual, in South America, we are protected by the Fair Use Clause in the US. If the library in South America makes more than one paper copy or forward the e-article to more than one library user, they are contravening copyright laws. It is very important to realize that articles sent electronically using the Ariel software must only be sent between Libraries and this software has built in copyright restrictions, such as that an item can only be printed once and the memory buffer of the receiving machine clears itself at regular intervals to ensure that electronic copies are not re-used. You can read more about this on the Digital Library Linkages web page at http://www.istec.org/Digital Library Linkages/copyright/copyright.html
How does the document delivery service of ISTEC work?
Essentially: the Science or Engineering faculty of the university has to Join ISTEC and pay dues. Then the Library should be informed and a library contact person should be identified. The library should purchase Ariel software. See http://www.icfes.gov.co/ariel/ this person contacts Juan Larrañaga at larranag@istec.org to set up an Ariel test. Then the system is in place and they can order for FREE anything we have at the UNM Science & Engineering Library, the Health Sciences and Business libraries, and some other libraries in our area. If they want to get articles we do not have from CISTI they will be invoiced at $15 per item once a month or they can establish a prepaid account at ISTEC.

We are currently working to make 25 science and technology databases (to citations and abstracts, not full text) from Silver Platter available for ISTEC members.