To Lend or Not to Lend? with ALPE is Easier! An Italian Cooperative System for Checking ILL Permitted Uses in e-Resource Licenses

ALPE (Archivio Licenze Periodici Elettronici) is a national archive of ILL clauses, extracted from "standard" and negotiated licenses, created to manage, to publicly share and to check the permitted uses of e-resources for ILL and document supply. Born in 2012 of a proposal by CNR Bologna Research Library to support NILDE librarians to comply with publishers ILL conditions. NILDE is the Italian network for inter-library document exchange. Today the ALPE working group is composed of 26 librarians and technicians from several research and academic institutions. The success key of the ALPE group is its working model: share and collaborate to build a common Knowledge; create and keep updated a tool useful to ILL librarians day by day. In this work we present: how it works, how it helps librarians, what are the main findings of the ALPE project.