id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-16348 Duy, Joanna; Larivière, Vincent Relationships between Interlibrary Loan and Research Activity in Canada 2014-01-01 15 .pdf application/pdf 8126 261 36 Similarly, a majority of un- dergraduate ILL users were found to have placed their requests through OpenURL link resolvers at Minnesota State Univer- sity, Mankato,25 and a significant positive correlation between institutions that had link resolvers and ILL borrowing activity was found in a large-scale recent study of academic libraries.26 Mak found an increase of ILL activity among Association of Research Libraries institutions between 1974 and 2008, and she notes the importance of self-service, discovery, and integration for effective re- source sharing: “while it would be easy to discount convenience as a driving factor, the integration of discovery and request- ing allows the user to pursue their train of thought, largely uninterrupted by the request process.”27 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