Editing Secure Electronic Delivery

'''Secure Electronic Delivery'''  (SED) is a service created in 2003 and provided by the  [[British Library#Document Supply Service|British Library Document Supply Service]] (BLDSS). Its purpose is to enable faster delivery of digital materials as [[Encryption|encrypted]], copyright-compliant [[Portable Document Format|PDF Document]]s, to a personal e-mail address. These documents are supplied from the British Library via its On Demand service.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bl.uk/sed   |title=Secure Electronic Delivery  |publisher=[[British Library]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/atyourdesk/docsupply/help/receiving/deliveryoptions/electronic/sed/sedhelpsheetfinal.pdf  |title= Secure Electronic Delivery – Technical Helpsheet  |publisher=[[British Library]] }}</ref> When the British Library supplies articles electronically, it sends them securely in order to ensure its usage is permitted (research purposes) and copyright law is observed.

==Methods==
As the [[publishing | publishing industry]], authors and creators become highly protective of their assets and [[intellectual property]], they impose strict rules on delivery methods to prevent [[copyright infringement]]. Nowadays, [[Digital rights management|DRM]]-enabled secure delivery appears to be the most widely used solution to address issues faced by libraries in supplying ebooks and digital materials to their users.<ref>{{cite news  | title=Secure E-mail Delivery Poised to Take Off  |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PWHbLjAQ57gC&q=document+secure+delivery+technology&pg=PA38   |date=23 August 1999 |author=Dominique Deckmyn  |newspaper=[[Computerworld]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web  |title= Practical problems for libraries distributing ebooks & secure electronic delivery |url=http://www.locklizard.com/libraries-secure-electronic-delivery/   |publisher=Locklizard Limited }}</ref>  SED, one of these solutions, is using [[Adobe LiveCycle]] Digital Rights Management (LCDRM) as an encryption method to deliver documents.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/library/using-the-library/interlending-and-document-supply/secure-electronic-delivery/ |title=British Library On Demand Electronic Delivery  |publisher=[[Lancaster University]] Library  }}</ref>

==Advantages==
SED offers convenience, quality and speed as documents are delivered upon request at any location and on any device. Requested articles are scanned for high quality reproduction, opened anywhere on any machine, including mobile devices.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/media/library/interlibraryloans/sed.pdf |title=SED – Secure Electronic Delivery  |publisher=[[University of Bradford]] }}</ref>

== Restrictions==
The following are restrictions hold in a SED service implementation:
*  The digital material is accessible only for 14 days via a link sent to a personal message.
* Due to copyright reasons,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Eiblum |first1= Paula   |last2= Ardito |first2= Stephanie    |date= September 1999 |title= Document Delivery & Copyright: Librarians Take the Fifth |journal=[[Online (magazine)|Online]] |volume=23 |issue=5 |pages=74–77  }}</ref>  the material can be opened only once, saved for 14 days and does not allow a copy-paste action.
* Upon display, the material must be printed from the same device and reprinted only once.
* The On Demand encryption technology works best on the default Safari browser although other browsers may accommodate it.

==See also==
* [[Digital rights management]]
* [[Digital asset management]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.bl.uk/sed SED Web page]

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