Thanks to everyone who has put in a proposal under Call 12/09 on enhancing library management systems for all their time and effort. Proposals are now with markers. As you know from the Call, we hope to get back to proposers with outcomes during week beginning March 22 (the intervening time is to allow for … Read more
The PIRUS2 (Publisher and Insitutional Repository Usage Statistics) project – which I blogged about briefly in September and which is exploring technical, organisational and economic issues in collecting and aggregating article usage statistics from repositories and publishers – has now been underway for a few months. The project plan is available from the JISC Web … Read more
Please note that JISC Call 12/09 on enhancing library management systems (and the associated ITT) are NOT affected by the JISC funding announcement of January 5. This is because they are funded from JISC’s core budget for 2009/10 and not from JISC’s capital funding allocation. Read more
This Call is NOT affected by the temporary freeze on new JISC capital funding commitments announced on January 5 as it is funded from JISC’s core budget for 2009/10. We’ve brought some supporting information together here on call 12/09 on enhancing library management systems. Read the call and post a query about specific section(s) using … Read more
We’ve now agreed the broad outline of the ‘library systems’ call which we hope to publish before Christmas. This call will invite proposals for case studies/projects in four different areas: Use of new library resource discovery interfaces Case studies of implementing and using one of the ‘newish’ library resource discovery interfaces (such as Primo, VuFind … Read more
We are currently scoping a call for short projects in the area of library management systems to start in April 2010. For some further information, please visit the JISC Funding Roadmap. We are aiming to publish this call in mid-December with a deadline for proposals in early February. Please note that these timescales could change. … Read more
A JISC funded study by the Centre for Digital Library Research at the University of Strathclyde on the links between library catalogues and institutional repositories has just been made available. The study found limited technical interoperability between library systems, institutional repositories and other institutional systems. You’ll find an announcement about the report, and links to … Read more
Usage statistics for electronic journals are increasingly standardised and usable thanks to the collaborative efforts of publishers, other information providers and librarians in developing and implementing the COUNTER codes of practice. But what do you do if you need usage statistics for individual articles by a particular author published across different journals and also held … Read more
As part of making library resources as visible as possible in the Web environment, libraries are increasingly interested in making their catalogue records available for use in Web applications and indexing by Web search engines. The records in a university library catalogue typically have many different origins: created by the library, obtained from a national … Read more
Earlier this year, the JISC TILE (Towards Implementation of Library 2.0 and the e-Framework) project proposed a draft high level ‘library domain model’ which could be used to further thinking about the functions and processes that library systems need to support in future. A workshop to discuss the Model took place on 19th June 2009. … Read more