PALCI Service Offerings:
An Overview
PALCI provides libraries with access to a suite of services and offerings, including:
EZBorrow & PALCI’s Shared Index, powered by ReShare
(Included with PALCI Membership as a Common Service)
An expedited interlibrary loan service that allows students, faculty, and staff at the participating institutions to discover, request, and borrow books and other physical library materials from 50+ college and university member libraries in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and West Virginia.
PALCI RapidILL & RapidR Pod (Optional/Opt-in)
PALCI Members have an active group (pod) using the system to deliver journal articles and book chapters to the requestor’s desktop usually within a few hours. Additionally PALCI offers RapidR, a Rapid service for returnable items.
Electronic Resources & Collective Acquisitions Programs (Optional/Opt-in)
PALCI negotiates contracts for purchase and subscription of electronic content and services. Below is a sample listing of recent electronic resource offerings available for regular renewals through PALCI.
- Adam Matthew Digital Backlist Collections (2018 and earlier) Purchase
- Alexander Street Press Academic Video Online Build by Choice (AVON)
- AAAS Science journals
- American Mathematical Society’s MathSciNet
- Annual Reviews Sciences, Biomedical/Life Sciences, Economics Collections
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
- BioOne
- Bowker Books In Print
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Gale
- IEEE Xplore Digital Library & Computer Society Digital Library
- ProQuest EthnicNewsWatch/GenderWatch
- Reprints Desk
- Royal Society of Chemistry GOLD
- Sage Premier
- Wiley Online Library – complete frontfile subscription and backfile perpetual purchase
EBooks (Optional / Opt-in)
- ProQuest – PALCI-wide Ebook Central Subscription + Philadelphia Inquirer & Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Historic Archive Perpetual Purchase Bundle
- EBSCO – eBooks on EBSCO Subscription + Digital Magazine Archive Bundle
- JSTOR – Books at JSTOR Evidence Based Acquisitions (backfile only) + Discounts on DDA programs
- Oxford University Press
- Sage Knowledge
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