How Much Does It Cost?
About $30.00 per request. A study of ILL transactions at Middlebury in late 1996 revealed that, on average, a single ILL request cost Middlebury close to $20.00. The cost to the lending library was close to $10.00.
Copyright can increase the cost of an ILL request drastically. We are able to order five articles published in the last five years, from each Journal title, without paying individual copyright. However, beyond these five requests, we must pay a per article copyright fee as determined by the publisher. May publishers charge around $30 per article. We have seen publishers who charge as much as $48 per article.
Middlebury students, faculty, and staff are not charged for requests related to academic pursuits.