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Acquiring Highway
Transportation Information from Abroad: Handbook FHWA International Technology Scanning Program Publication No. FHWA-PL-95-011 (B) November 1994 |
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Acquiring Highway
Transportation Information from Abroad: Handbook FHWA International Technology Scanning Program Publication No. FHWA-PL-95-011 (B) November 1994 |
Transportation library and information professionals use many sources for acquiring foreign and domestic documents. They conduct direct correspondence with other libraries and information centers through interlibrary loan departments, as well as group access center sharing networks. They also correspond directly with government agencies, publishers, and private organizations to acquire documents. In addition, they correspond with document delivery vendors who supply foreign documents. Direct correspondence or access through online databases can be used to acquire material from document delivery vendors. Plate 4 provides a list of foreign document vendors. Name, addresses, telephone numbers, and online access vendors are provided.
For the online database vendor ESA-IRS, the document delivery vendors that can be accessed online and that are used for highway transportation databases include British Library Document Supply Centre, INIST Diffusion, Delft University of technology Library, university of Hanover, and Dynamic Information Corporation. Plate 4 identified these vendors.
In STN International, articles and documents identified in JICST-E (provider of civil engineering tonics from Janan, in Enalish) can also be ordered online.
Database vendors provide online access to ordering full text or hard copy documents. Document delivery time varies depending on type of document, publication date, and availability. Most documents will be delivered within 1 to 3 weeks. However, many documents, especially foreign ones, can take longer. In DIALOG, document delivery vendors are identified in the "Yellowsheets." A review of the vendors' description sheets revealed that there more than 25 vendors claim that they can provide scientific and technical documents on all topics directly online or through telephone contact. Several of these vendors state that they can acquire documents from anywhere in the world. Others are more specific on particular types of documents and country. Plate 5 provides a summary of the vendors that provide foreign and domestic document acquisition service.
Plate 4. Foreign Document Delivery Vendors
BRITISH LIBRARY DOCUMENT SUPPLY
CENTRE
Customer Service, Boston Spa
Wetherly, West
Yorkshire
L523 7BQ, U.K.
Tel: 0937 546060
Fax: 0937 546333
(Supplies
document delivery service in ESA-IRS ACOMPLINE/URBALINE. and PASCAL.)
DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
LIBRARY
Selection PTT/IBAB
P.O. Box 98
2600 MG DELFT
The
Netherlands
Tel: 015 785656
Fax: 015 158759
(Supplies document delivery
service in ESA-IRS ACOMPLINE/URBALINE, and PASCAL.)
DYNAMIC INFORMATION CORP.
1722 Glibreth
Road
Burlingame, CA USA 94010-1305
Tel: 415-259-5000
Fax: 415-259-5005
(Supplies document delivery service in ESA-IRS for IRRD, TRANSDOC,
ACOMPLINE/URBALINE and PASCAL.)
INIST DIFFUSION
Customer Service
2 alle
du Parc de Brabois
F-54514 VANDOEUVRE CEDEX
Tel: 33 83 50 46 64
Fax:
33 83 50 46 66
(Supplies document delivery service in ESA-IRS for IRRD and
PASCAL.)
UNIVERSITATSBIBLIOTHEK UND TIB
Postfach 60
80
D-30060 Hannover
Germany
Tel: 0511 762-3426
Fax: 0511
715936
(Supplies document delivery service in ESA-IRS for TRANSDOC, IRRD,
ACOMPLINE/URBALINE and PASCAL.)
Plate 5. Document Delivery Vendors Covering International and Domestic Material (Dialog Access)
| Order Acronym | Order Supplier | Description |
| ACCESS | Associated Information Consultants (Ann Arbor, MI) (313) 996-5553 FAX (313)996-4144 |
All documents, over 20 international research libraries and publications |
| BLDSC | British Library Document Supply Centre (Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom +44 937 546060 FAX +44 937 546333 |
All documents, British library document supply center |
| BRDOC | Books and Reserach, Inc. (New York, NY) (212) 333-7723 (212) 315-3604 |
Books, subscriptions international bookseller, subscription agent, document delivery, info broker |
| CANDOCS | Micromedia Limited (Toronto, Canada) (416) 362-5211 FAX (416) 362-6161 |
Canadian patents and government reports |
| CAROLIB | Carolina Library Services (Chapel Hill, NC) (919) 929-4870 (919) 933-1253 |
Journal articles, reprints, books, reports, meeting papers, other documents worldwide |
| CDUMI | University Microfilms International (800) 521-0600 |
British theses and dissertations |
| CHALDOC | Chalmers University of Technology Library (Sothenberg, Sweden) 46-32-81-01-00 |
All documents, Swedish libraries for engineering, technology |
| CTIC | Information Services (Dublin, OH) (614) 889-1310 |
Russian documents |
| DATA | DATA-SEARCH (Pittsboro, NC) (919) 542-5114 FAX (919) 542-5514 |
Articles, papers, books, technical reports, patent or other documents at international libraries |
| Order Acronym | Order Supplier | Description |
| DATABKS | DATABOOKS (Worchester, MA) (800) 642-6657 |
International books |
| DATAQUE | DataQue International, Inc. (Chicago, IL) (312) 944-6707 (312) 944-6708 |
International journal articles, government documents |
| DELFTLIB | Library of Delft University of Technology (Delft, The Netherlands) 015-788013 |
Dutch documents, Delft University of Technology Library, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands |
| DERWENT | Derwent Publications Ltd. (London, United Kingdom) 01-242-5223 |
International patents |
| EiDDS | Engineering Information, Inc. (New York, NY) (212) 705-7301 |
International articles, conference papers |
| ESL | Engineering Societies Library (New York, NY) (212) 705-7611 |
Engineering literature worldwide |
| GLOBAL | Global Engineering Documents (Irvine, CA) (800) 854-7179 |
Government and industry specifications and standards |
| HIRS | Harkers Informationn Retrieval Systems (Sydney, Australia) (612) 262-2729 |
Patent, trademarks, law, business, science and technology, southwest corner of Pacific rim - Australia, New Zealand |
| IFIPATS | IFI/Plenum Data Company (Alexandria, VA) (800) 336-7575 FAX (703) 415-0417 |
Non-U.S. patents |
| INFO | Information On Demand (McLean, VA) (793) 442-0303 |
All Japanese documents, Japan Information Center of Science and Technology |
| Order Acronym | Order Supplier | Description |
| INFODOC | Accents Publications Servce, Inc. (Silver Springs, MD) (301) 588-5496 FAX (301) 588-5249 |
Publications trade and professional associations, intergovernmental organizations |
| ISI | Institute for Scientific Information (Philadelphia, PA) (215) 386-4399 |
World journals -- science and technology |
| NTHBINFO | NOrwegian Institute of Technology Library (Trondheim, Norway) 47-75-95110 |
All Scandinavian documents, Norwegian Institute of Technology Library |
| NTIS | National Technical Information Service (Springfield, VA) (703) 487-4660 |
Non-U.S. government-sponsored R&D results |
| NTISUK | NTIS, United Kingdom Service Center (United Kingdom) 0420-86848 |
All documents worldwide, U.K., Ireland, Europe |
| PATDOC | Swedish Patent Office (Stockholm, Sweden) 46-8-7822891 |
Worldwide patents, Swedish patent office |
| PATENTS | British Library, Science Reference Library (London, United Kingdom) +44 71-323 792619 FAX +44 71-323 7930 |
Patents, British Library |
| RPIPAT | Rapid Patent Service Research Publications, Inc. (Arlington, VA) (703) 920-5050 |
Non-U.S. and non-English and English patents |
| TIBORDER | Technische Informationsbibliothek, Universitatsbibliothek (Hanover, Germany) 0511-762-2268 |
European community journal articles and books, Technische Informationsbibliothek |
| VTTINF | Technical Research Centre of Finland (Espoo, Finland) +358 0 4561 4434 |
Scandinavian documents - all types, Technical Research Center of Finland |