UKRR an update Deborah Shorley Head, UKRR Project

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UKRR an updateDeborah ShorleyHead, UKRR
Project

• SCONUL CONFERENCE
• EDINBURGH JUNE 2008

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UKRR

• The story so far
• Lessons learned
• What next?

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UK Research Reserve

• A collaborative, co-ordinated and sustainable
  approach to securing the long-term retention,
  storage and access to low-use printed research
  journals.

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UKRR Who has done what

• 6 original partners
• Birmingham
• Cardiff
• Imperial
• Liverpool
• St. Andrews
• Southampton
• 2 Supplementary partners
• Exeter
• Newcastle
• 14 km of journals disposed of by end July 2008

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UKRR Lessons learned

• Diversity of practice
• SUNCAT inadequate
• Very hard work for both HEIs BL

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UKRR Phase 2

• Bid to HEFCE for 9.8m
• Enduring partnership with British Library
• HE culture change

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UKRR Phase 2

• Support from
• RLUK
• SCONUL
• UUK
• 1994 group
• RIN
• HEFCE decision by July 2008

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UKRR

• Not a discrete entity
• rather
• Key plank of UKs research infrastructure

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UKRR

• More information fromJean Crawford, UKRR
  Project Officer j.crawford_at_imperial.ac.uk