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Article: BL builds direct link to document supply side. British Library Direct is a new online platform offering users a fresh interface for its document supply service, as well as extended search facilities, which aim to make its collections more easily accessible. Mark Chillingworth went to the St Pancras HQ to suss out its strategy.
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- Information World Review
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- June 14, 2005
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British Library Direct may appear to be just a search engine, but the web interface to its Document Supply Service (DSS) is also the first shoots of a major new platform.
Following the full launch of British Library Direct during this month, the British Library (BL) will throw itself into a development schedule that will see its electronic content delivery abilities expand, and begin to form the basis of realising its strategy of making its collections easily accessible.
BL Direct enables users to search nine million records from 20,000 journals and is part of the BL's response to last summer's House of Commons Scientific Committee report Scientific ...