To lend or not to lend? With ALPE it is easier! An Italian cooperative system for checking ILL permitted uses in e-resource licenses

ALPE (Archivio Licenze dei Periodici Elettronici / e-journals license database) is an italian co-operative project aiming to improve the understanding of the issues raised by ILL clauses of electronic resources license agreements. ALPE is designed to collect all clauses of the licence agreements subscribed by the participating universities and research institutes, with the purpose of building a national archive. ALPE is integrated with NILDE - the italian service for document exchange - allows librarians to implement the correct policies for ILL services, leads to the explanation and clarification of the clauses, and at the same time guarantees publishers on the fulfilment of the subscribed agreements. The paper describes how database was conceived and organised, and details the improvements that it made possible in the ILL service. It also describes the ALPE-NILDE integration and presents the results of data analysis of license permitted uses.