[Information provision for the biomedical sciences in the Netherlands remains safe guarded]

Abstract

In view of the rapid development of electronic journals covering the biomedical sciences, the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services has decided to review its document delivery services. The Institute will cancel all of its journal subscriptions at the end of 2002. This will not affect services provided to users of the library. Requests for documents from the collection will continue to be honoured. Cooperation with other European libraries, in particular with the German Central Library of Medicine in Cologne, will ensure continued access to a broad collection of journals. However, users will need to ensure that they prepare themselves for the world of digital journals. Document delivery is seen as a substitute for fully-fledged digital access.