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crl-16348	Duy, Joanna; Larivière, Vincent	Relationships between Interlibrary Loan and Research Activity in Canada	2014	15	.pdf	application/pdf	8126	245	34	There was found to be a 9 percent increase in ILL of articles between 1995/96 and 1999/00 in 26 of Illinois’ largest libraries, during which time access to online full-text journals increased significantly, and the authors speculated that access to online citation databases was part of the reason for the increase.18 A study at a small private university underscored the important role played by databases in affecting ILL borrowing activity levels; the author determined that, from 1990 to 2000, an av- erage of 63 percent of ILL article requests originated from databases, and that the number climbed significantly during the 10-year study—from 60 percent in 1990 to 80 percent in 2000.19 Not all research has shown ILL borrowing increases as a result of increased online content, however; de- creases in document delivery were found in Spanish and French university libraries from 2000 to 2003, when full-text journal collections increased considerably.20 The purchase of new Elsevier e-journals was presumed to be responsible for a 22 per- cent decrease in ILL article requests at the University of Glasgow Library between 1998–1999 (prior to the Elsevier purchase) and 2001–2002, after the Elsevier package was purchased.21 A significant decrease in the volume of ILL borrowing of pho- tocopies was also found during a 10-year period in a college devoted to the study of criminal justice.22 Other studies suggest that the pres- ence of OpenURL link resolvers has had an effect on ILL borrowing activity. One of the oldest studies to examine the relationship between library collection size and interlibrary loan borrowing rates found a negative correlation between the two—indicating that the larger a library’s holdings, the fewer ILL borrow- ing requests there were.3 However, most researchers working on this topic found a positive correlation between library collections and ILL borrowing activity, indicating that the larger a library’s collec- tion size, the higher their ILL borrowing activity, a correlation which is perhaps counterintuitive.	cache/crl-16348.pdf	txt/crl-16348.txt