Post-Follett

New Initiatives

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· Electronic Journal National Site Licences

· Preprint Archives

· National Image Service

· National Archives Server

· National Catalogue of Research Collections

· Digital preservation and legal deposit

R&D

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· Document Delivery 4 projects

· Electronic Journals 10 projects

· Digitisation 4 projects

· On-demand publishing 7 projects

· Training & awareness 4 projects

· Supporting studies 5 projects

354 bids were received

Resource Discovery

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· ADAM Art & Design W. Surrey

· BUBL Generalia Bath

· EEVL Engineering Heriot-Watt

· OMNI Biomedicine NIMR

· RUDI Urban Design Hertford

· SOSIG Social Science Bristol

Law's Law: Good Information drives out bad

Resource Centres

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· NISS Current Info Bath

· HENSA pc shareware Lancaster

· HENSA Unix shareware Kent

· IHR-Info History Info IHR

· CAIN "The Troubles" Ulster

· Eurotext European Info Hull

Data Centres

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· CURL Linked OPACs Manchester

· BIDS Bibliographic Bath

· EDINA Bibliographic Edinburgh

· MIDAS Scientific datasets Manchester

· AHDS Humanities Texts etc. King's College

· Data Archive Soc. Science research

and NGO data Essex

Infrastructure

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· Mail Lists Newcastle

· Central purchasing De Montfort/Bath

· Graphics standards Loughborough

· Office of Library Networking Bath

· Caching Kent

· CNIDR To be decided

· Network Research City

Policy Issues

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· Free at the point of use

· Community involvement in selection

· Commonality of interfaces

· Highest Common Factor

· Low-hanging fruit

· Managing the trailing edge

· Ownership costs

Objectives

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· Electronic information is routine

· Providers not just consumers of information

· Universal in reach and content

· Democratising information

· Scalability and operational standards

· Skills base in the public sector

· Free Traders not Little Englanders

"Never more than thirty million"

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· Universities are largely funded by government

· 0.004% of the HE budget

· Programme budget

· Network - £20 million

· Services - £ 8 million

· R&D - £ 6 million

· Special Collections - £ 9 million

"Do it - then fix it"

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· A highly managed programme

· Service delivery not research

· Social engineering and cultural change

· A tightly knit management group

· Costs peanuts

Distributed National Electronic Collection

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