Who loves you pretty print?

A view through the UKRR kaleidoscope

RLUK Conference: November 2010

Frances BoyleUKRR Manager

UKRR - Purpose

Key aims

Protecting research information

100 km shelf space to be released

through

A partnership between HE sector and the BL

funded by HEFCE

Why now?

Drivers (some):

Space – is finite

Collections overlap

Duplication of holdings:

Intra and inter de-duplication

Mass digitization

Growth of e-sustainable archives

Institutional strategic fit

Cultural – sharing paradigm : ‘JiT’ v ‘JiC’

Why worry about print?

Coverage:

Not everything is or ever will be

available e-format

Completeness:

image quality, contents pages, ads etc.

User needs/wants/expectations

Digitization: quality, sustainability,

preservation etc

What’s in a print archive?

Collection depth:Diplomatic & Consular Reports

Nature

Hansard

Der Spiegel

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Concrete

Tide Tables

Vogue

Overlap rate - 53%

Most frequently offered titles

Journal Title Publisher Times

Offered

Nature NPG 12

Annual Review of Physiology Annual Reviews 12

Journal of Neurochemistry Wiley Blackwell 11

Planta Springer 11

Trends in pharmacological sciences Elsevier 11

Collection Models

Core ApproachPip Approach

UKRR kaleidoscope - factoids

47% available on at least 1 sustainable e-

archive service

14% (3k items) of material offered is ‘at

risk’

More SS & HUM titles being offered

Net savings - £6M

Community action..

Sharing:

What is valuable?

What can safely be compromised?

What to standardise?

What contributes most to the core aims?

What benefits accrued from investment level

Community action..

Joint investment:

Need to demonstrate tangible value

Enable institutional strategies

Cross sectoral partnerships

Trust:

Build on partners’ existing strengths

Don’t reinvent the wheel

We are not alone...

Europe:

Netherlands: Metamorfoze project

Finland: Finnish National Repository

Catalonia – GEPA

Australia: CAVAL

Hong Kong: JURA

We are not alone...

US:

OCLC Networked Level Management

Ithaka – What to Withdraw

CRL, Print Archive Program

CLIR – Idea of Order

Western Regional Storage Trust

HATHI/RECAP

Final thoughts..Challenges:

data quality & consistency

resource intensive process

disclosure & discovery

Decide community access or community

preservation

Does size matter?

UKRR - virtuous circle???

Impact

Library use

“UK

“UKRR has enabled the University of

Glasgow Library to free up space to

create a new social learning space which

has been heavily used since it opened.

This has contributed to a significant rise

in the number of students and

researchers using the Library”

Susan Ashworth, Assistant Director, Research and Learning Support Services, University of Glasgow

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UKRR Members’ Workshop February 2010

UKRR Key Do