EDINA seeks to enhance the productivity of research, learning and teaching in UK Higher and Further Education, as a JISC-designated national data centre delivering specialist data services.
To manage and present a portfolio of data services.
To sustain leadership in the provision of specialist data services, e.g. bibliographic and digital map data.
To offer a significant part of the DNER, by achieving critical mass, market presence and effective collaboration.
To increase the overall utility and relevance of EDINA services, by
To widen access to on-line services, by
To continue to move to an open technological and service environment, by
To sustain and develop a healthy and well-found data centre, by
To sustain an effective blend of service orientation and development capability, by
To develop and maintain an exceptional IT capability, by
EDINA aims to offer a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week service. Information on planned breaks of service is broadcast to users in advance.
The EDINA Helpdesk is staffed during normal office hours, Monday to Friday. Times during which the Helpdesk is not staffed, such as public holidays, are advertised in advance. It is staffed in a rota system, although duty officers are also drawn from a wider pool within EDINA specifically trained for that purpose. This ensures contingency backup.
The national services included as part of EDINA are funded from several sources, including JISC (via SHEFC), the University of Edinburgh, and by subscription from UK Higher and Further Education Institutions (HEIs and FEIs). A list of subscribing institutions is set out in Appendix 3.
The provision of services for Art Abstracts, Art Index Retrospective, BIOSIS, Digimap, and Compendex is funded by JISC; UKBORDERS™ is funded jointly by ESRC and JISC. All other services are funded by direct subscription. PCI and Palmer's were funded by JISC until the end of July 2000, Palmers then became a direct subscription service. These online services are available free at the point of use by staff and students at subscribing institutions for UK academic purposes.
All national services supported by EDINA have been grouped within the scope of the Data Library structure of management and operation.
With the introduction of Digimap the staff complement grew significantly. It was decided that, to facilitate management, it would be sensible to introduce a form of matrix management with four teams (each with a designated manager): Content Development & Support Services; IT Infrastructure; Bibliographic Services; Research & Geo Data Services. Within these teams a number of workgroups, each led by a co-ordinator, have been identified. Each of the service teams has workgroups for Service Delivery and User Support, which were previously identified as composite teams. The relevant workgroups continue to work closely together. This 'matrix' structure is under review, but has denoted internal growth.
The User Support group's purpose is to support users and their support staff. The members are responsible for promoting the EDINA services and for learning from, and addressing the needs of, academic support staff and end users.
The Service Delivery group's purpose is to ensure delivery of on-line data services. The functions are those of developing, implementing and maintaining effective on-line data services. This includes the design and implementation of user interfaces and databases, and ensuring regular data updates. Functions which are shared across the service teams, including the Helpdesk and allied activities, are the responsibility of a workgroup within Content Development & Support Services.
The IT Technical Infrastructure Team's purpose is to ensure the reliability of the platform to support the on-line services. It is responsible for planning and maintaining the underlying software and hardware platforms, for effective liaison with the Facilities Management Division (FMD) and Network Services Division (NSD) of the University's Computing Services (EUCS), and for specialist programming support as required.
The work of these teams is supported by Content Development & Support Services. The purpose of this team is to co-ordinate, to facilitate and to provide administrative support; to seek out and evaluate new opportunities for collection development, to provide an overview of related project work, and to provide support services generally.
The Facilities Management Division of EUCS provide EDINA with support in the installation, operation and maintenance of the hardware and operating system components of pentlands.ed.ac.uk and pentlands2.ed.ac.uk, the UNIX computing platforms used to host the service, and the connection to the Internet. EUCS manages and operates the largest University-based computing service in the UK and has supported national and regional services since the late 1960s. Edinburgh continues to be a centre of computing and networking excellence, with connections to all major academic networks, including SuperJANET.
EDINA services cover a range of academic disciplines resulting in a heterogeneous user community and target audiences with different user requirements. Each service is assigned a Service Co-ordinator, charged with ensuring the 'long term health' of that service and carrying out a monitoring role on service performance. However, EDINA cannot always have staff with specialist knowledge in all subjects covered by its databases: such specialist support is therefore sought from appropriate experts, such as the data vendors, relevant University departments and such as the subject-based Information Gateways (e.g. Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL), Organising Medical Networked Information (OMNI, part of BIOME). We continue to have good working relationships with the subject-based data organisations, such as the Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS) - particularly the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) and the History Data Service (HDS) - and with other non-JISC organisations in the electronic library, such as the Computing in Teaching Initiatives (CTIs) and now the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSNs).
The purpose of the faculty representation is to allow the end user (staff or student) to view the EDINA services within the perspective of a larger 'information landscape'. Rather than a 'one shop, stop' approach, this alerts the actual or prospective user of the EDINA national services, through hot-link pointers, to the existence of other services and facilities of relevance. These include JISC-sponsored services and the subject-based resource discovery facilities, as well as related services.
In order to aid navigation of resources, the EDINA services are also categorised by type:
It is also part EDINA's strategy to provide alternative views of the Information Landscape, for example, the data of special relevance to Scotland.
The EDINA Website is designed with a view to improving accessibility: specifically, to help users with visual impairments, and to help all users to navigate the site and to identify the services of particular relevance to them. In addition it was our aim to offer attractive Web pages without excluding those with relatively low-tech equipment.
On the Website, EDINA services are organised into the subject-based 'faculties' and data types. Links to other information services in the UK Electronic Library are also offered, which alert users to the existence of other services and facilities of relevance.
During the year the following services were announced or launched:
For all of these services, publicity material in the form of the well-established EDINA A5 flyers and A3 posters were produced and distributed. As with our existing services, new services launched during the year were documented by means of A4 fan-folded 'Quick Reference Guides', and with support material on the EDINA Website.
Online tutorials for a number of EDINA services are published on the Web in HTML format, and as PowerPoint files which can be downloaded and used as training aids by site representatives and other local User Support staff. Since then tutorials have been produced, in the same formats, for the other main EDINA services (released in time for the academic session 1999/2000).
All the changes described here were announced in EDINA's quarterly newsletter, Newsline, which continues to play an important role in keeping academic support staff and others with an interest in our services abreast of developments at EDINA. We also include articles from individuals in UK academia, to gain a wider perspective on trends in the community and EDINA's role within it.
EDINA operates a Helpdesk that acts as the primary point of contact for all enquiries concerning EDINA services and responds to enquiries from both end users and support staff. Helpdesk staff are trained to categorise queries, and to refer them to 'experts' inside and outside EDINA as appropriate. Helpdesk enquiries also form an intrinsic part of our user feedback system for the purpose of future developments.
During the reporting period, EDINA offered a large variety of workshops and seminars covering its bibliographic and geospatial services at various levels. Details are given in Appendix 6.
In November 1999, a training needs analysis was conducted with the site representatives of the EDINA bibliographic services. A further training needs analysis was conducted in August 1999 with potential support staff of the forthcoming Digimap national service. Important findings from these surveys were:
In line with these findings, a distinction was made between workshops that offered in-depth training in individual services and those that were provided on a faculty basis for promotional purposes.
From November 1999 to February 2000, 12 workshops were held in Newcastle, Edinburgh, Portsmouth and Manchester to provide in-depth training in the forthcoming Digimap national service. 68 delegates attended from 39 institutions and the total number of attendances across all 12 workshops was 152 (delegates could attend more than one module.)
In June and July 2000, a further 7 workshops were held at Portsmouth and Manchester, attended by 52 delegates representing 29 institutions, 8 of which had not been represented in the earlier diet of workshops. The total number of attendances at the Summer diet of workshops was 76.
In April 2000, 3 workshops at Manchester, Edinburgh and King's College were held to provide in-depth training in the new web interface to EDINA BIOSIS. Trainers from BIOSIS were also present at each workshop. A total of 27 delegates were trained, representing 22 institutions. A further workshop at Cardiff was cancelled due to lack of bookings, but those who had booked were sent the workshop materials by post.
In July 2000, 3 workshops to train staff in the new interface to EDINA Art Abstracts/Art Index Retrospective services were offered. 2 were cancelled due to lack of participants but 1 went ahead, at London Guildhall University. A total of 12 people attended the workshop, representing 7 institutions and 2 organisations. Those who had booked to attend the cancelled workshops were sent the materials by post.
Following these training workshops, on-line support materials derived from the training materials, presented and evaluated at the workshop sessions, have been made available at the EDINA website. Favourable reactions from site representatives and other site support staff have been received to these on-line learning materials.
Faculty based promotional workshops were held to promote the new EDINA services for Social Sciences. These were held in Manchester and Edinburgh and attracted 9 delegates in all, from 8 different institutions. One further workshop, at Bristol, was cancelled due to lack of bookings, but those who had booked were sent the materials by post.
Further faculty based promotional workshops are already planned and will be included in next year's Annual Report.
An extensive evaluation strategy of EDINA workshops was implemented during the course of this reporting period. Delegates at each workshop are requested to complete a learning log during the course of the training day and then a reaction report at the end of the day. Evaluations have been received from an average of 90% of participants at most training workshops, and in some cases, 100%. Most evaluations were very positive about the training provided, in terms of content, duration and structure of the training days.
Workplace evaluations were carried out with participants at the first diet of Digimap courses and the participants at the BIOSIS workshops. These evaluations revealed that the participants had successfully transferred learning from the workshops back into their workplaces and believed the courses to have been effective. They are also using the on-line learning materials derived from the training workshops and directing other site support staff and end users to them.
One aspect that has been addressed with regard to several services, especially Digimap, BIOSIS and Art Abstracts/Art Index Retrospective, is to make available on-line materials that support the novice users of the services. These materials have been very favourably received by site support staff, who are able to print them off and use them to help student users of the services.
As well as the dedicated EDINA workshops, EDINA promotional material was included as part of training events and exhibitions organised by other organisations in the UK electronic library, e.g. Netskills workshops. Such collaborative work fits well into EDINA's policy of taking a more subject based approach to training and promotion. EDINA continued to respond positively to invitations from conference and seminar organisers throughout the year.
The UKBORDERS™ training programme continued with the remit to develop understanding of the uses to which digitised boundary data may be put by users. We presented 5 workshops jointly with MIMAS during the course of this reporting period, 2 in November 1999 at London and Manchester, 2 in February 2000 in Edinburgh and Manchester, and 1 in March 2000 in London.
We continued to work with the JIBS User Group as an appropriate forum for input from users of EDINA bibliographic services. The Group's mailbase list 'lis-jibs-users' was used in addition to EDINA's own list 'edina-all' to keep users informed of service news. During 1999/2000, EDINA staff attended meetings of the JIBS User Group and presented reports, when invited to do so.
The Digimap Steering Group met regularly during the year to review progress with the service. Contacts were also established with the JIBS User Group, in order to consider its use as a channel for Digimap user representation.
UKBORDERS™ users received information via the 'edina-ukb' mailbase list and continued to be represented through the ESRC Census Advisory Committee that comprises a broad cross-section of relevant groups within the academic community. In addition, UKBORDERS™ is represented on the management committee of the ESRC-funded Historical GIS Project at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.
During the year EDINA consulted with User Support staff and other representatives of the user community on issues of development of a Web interface to EDINA BIOSIS. This proved to be a fruitful exercise, and the community again contributed most usefully at the time of the BIOSIS-Web Beta test prior to launch of the service in February 2000.
We continued our efforts to market our data services to the academic staff and students in the subscribing institutions. As in previous years, we did this by assisting site representatives and other support staff in their local promotional activity, by providing copies of posters, flyers and other informative material, either free or on a cost-recovery basis. We also continued our co-operation with the data vendors in promoting our services.
A major challenge during 1999/2000 was the promotion of the Digimap service. The EDINA Digimap service will be of interest to a very wide range of users - geographers are expected to form a small minority. This has implications both for the dissemination of information from EDINA and the nature of local support required. A number of documents publicising the service and addressing these issues have been produced and circulated within the community and published as help pages within the service. The training courses for Digimap have also emphasised these aspects and provided suggestions for local site support staff on how to publicise the service within their own institutions.
During the year EDINA identified a number of relevant specialist conferences at which attendance was appropriate, e.g. CHART 99, ARCLIB, GISRUK 2000 and ALLC/ACH 2000. A full list of conference presentations and exhibitions attended is given in Appendix 6.
Highlights in EDINA's calendar included:
Registration and authentication for most EDINA Services is carried out using Athens.
EDINA continues to advocate the use of personal Athens user accounts to allow us to offer user-level options. However, EDINA offers access to bibliographic Web services from individual and group Athens accounts. This has proved popular with those users who did not require the increased functionality offered through personal accounts.
The numbers of institutions subscribing to JISC supported services in 1999/2000 were:
| Art Abstracts | 42 |
| Art Index Retrospective | 7 |
| BIOSIS Previews | 44 |
| Digimap | 43 |
| Ei Compendex | 70 |
| Inspec | 30 |
| Palmer's Index | 76 |
| PCI | 70 |
| UKBORDERS™ | 123 |
Log-in statistics are given in Appendix 3.
The Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) has become the centrepiece of the JISC's collections policy. The overall aim of the DNER has been described thus: "to develop a framework that will support the creation of an easily accessible, comprehensive information resource that can be used by teachers, learners and researchers within and beyond the UK Higher Education community". EDINA has striven to develop services to comply with the DNER policy.
In accordance with our policy for acquisitions, and as part of our contribution to building the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER), EDINA bibliographic and research data services and associated Data Library activities are organised on the EDINA Website (http://edina.ac.uk) into the subject-based faculty groups described in section 5.4.
As part of our 'Learning and Teaching watch', EDINA has been liaising with interested parties, both national and local to us here in Edinburgh.
We have both new and long-standing contacts in several of the LTSN Subject Centres, and with other university staff, with whom we are working on our funded 5/99 projects. The three projects that have most relevance to learning and teaching issues are:
Project 2 started during the reporting period. While Projects 1 and 3 are not funded until after the end of the reporting period, start-up activities in connection with them began during the reporting period.
A local team at Edinburgh University has been convened by EDINA, which consists of a sub-Librarian, several Subject Librarians and members of staff from the learning technology departments within the University. The group is working on ways to enhance links between library and learning technology staff at a local level, to enhance and encourage the use of electronic information services in learning and teaching by academic staff.
EDINA also has input to a group convened by staff at Strathclyde University to examine ways of providing information literacy teaching. This group consists of a senior lecturer at Strathclyde, now at Sheffield University, a staff developer at Strathclyde University and various library staff and information managers from both HEIs and private sector organisations.
The EDINA Digimap national service was successfully launched on Monday 10 January, 2000. At the time of launch, 39 institutions had committed themselves to subscribing, and this rose to 43 by March 2000. These institutions include some of the oldest and some of the newest universities, large multi-disciplinary universities and small University-sector colleges.
Within those institutions, by the end of the reporting period 90,000 maps had been made on screen and 25,000 tiles of data downloaded by 2,000 registered users. The pattern of use may change in future years as institutions promote the service more to their members.
Ordnance Survey datasets provided under the national service are:
The Digimap service is supported by EDINA, in conjunction with MIMAS, through a helpdesk, training courses and extensive online resources.
With the agreement between the JISC and the OS for licence to allow UK HEIs to have access to data from the OS National Topographical Database, the operation of the Digimap Project 'demonstrator' service came to an end on 20 December 1999, as far as access to OS data was concerned. Users of the demonstrator service at the six trial sites were notified that the service would cease from that date and that by 5 January 2000 they must have deleted from their machines all copies of OS data downloaded from the service. At the same time, site representatives were reminded of their institutions' obligations regarding the OS data; namely, that they must remove all data relating to the Digimap Project from their systems at the end of the trial. We asked them to confirm that files had been deleted and drew their attention in particular to ensuring any backup copies made from server machines by computer services had also been deleted. Confirmation was received from all trial sites that this had been done.
At the same time, the Data Library deleted all copies of the data provided to us for the purpose of the Digimap and Digimap.Plus Projects, with the exception of a small amount of Land-Line data, which OS agreed that the Digimap.Plus project could retain for its work.
The Digimap.Plus project was originally intended to end on 30 September 2000. However, as a result of the competing priorities on staff resource brought about by the introduction of the national service, representations were made to the eLib Programme Office for the project's objectives to be revised. With the agreement of the JISC, and without significant funding implications, the end date of Digimap.Plus was moved to September 2001. This was to allow for the testing of new pilot services that provide access to Ordnance Survey historic digital map data and metadata to promote the study of the 'changing landscape'.
EDINA BIOSIS-Web version 1.0 was launched on 14th February, and was made available to all institutions subscribing to EDINA BIOSIS-Telnet. The EDINA BIOSIS-Telnet interface continued to be available.
Subscribing institutions received sample quantities of an eight-page, A5-size Reference Guide to EDINA BIOSIS-Web, with larger quantities available on a cost recovery basis. A series of BIOSIS-Web training courses were held in April. As with other new services, prior to launch EDINA made extensive use of field testers from within the community, who again helped us in tuning the service.
Features of the EDINA BIOSIS-Web interface include:
Eduserv Chest reached agreement with HW Wilson concerning the provision of online access to Art Index Retrospective to the tertiary education community. This dataset provides a searchable index of 55 years of art journalism (1929-1984) from 420 noted publications round the globe.
EDINA already provided an online Art Abstracts service, and was asked by JISC to complement that service with Art Index Retrospective. Together, Art Index Retrospective and Art Abstracts (1984 to present) can finds citations to over seven decades of articles.
Points to note:
EDINA launched the service at Libtech 2000 (20-22 March), Olympia, London.
EconLit indexes and abstracts more than 550 international economic journals, covering accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labour, marketing, demographics, and more. Years of coverage are 1969 to present.
PAIS International is a bibliographic index with abstracts covering political, social, and public policy issues. Topics covered include economic, political, and social issues, business, and any topics that are or might become the subject of legislation. Years of coverage are 1972 to present.
The MLA International Bibliography indexes critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Years of coverage are 1963 to present.
Ulrich'sTM International Periodicals Directory is a continuously updated source of information on selected periodicals and serials published throughout the world. It includes annuals, continuations and conference proceedings, from over 80,000 serials publishers (including some 47,000 discontinued titles from 1974 onward), and full buying and ordering information.
In June a further three key resources in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences were offered by EDINA through our continued partnership with Cambridge Scientific Abstracts:
Sociological Abstracts is a primary resource for the latest research in sociology and related disciplines. The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Coverage goes back as far as 1963; records added after 1974 contain abstracts of journal articles.
Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage, from 1980 onwards, of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, community development, crisis intervention, gerontology, planning, forecasting, poverty and homelessness.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts covers all aspects of the study of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
The agreements for all of these services will be valid until 31 July 2002 in the first instance.
The five-year agreements for two of the original services offered by EDINA, Periodical Contents Index (PCI) and Palmer's Index to The Times, came to an end during the year. In both cases, it was agreed with Chadwyck-Healey and the JISC that, in order to avoid disruption to the user community, the services should continue to run until the end of July 2000. Concerning Palmer's Index, following a canvass of interested parties within the community, EDINA decided to offer a Palmer's-Web service, starting at the end of the reporting period, to those sites who had previously had access to the service and thus under their licence agreement had rights to the data in perpetuity.
Over the summer, EDINA also developed 'EDINA Links', an HTTP-based links-to-holdings and links-to-full-text facility, available from within EDINA bibliographic database services.
A list is given in Appendix 6.
The Data Library is a partner, as manager of SALSER, in CASA (Co-operative Action on Serials and Articles), a three-year two-phase EU Telematics and Libraries Programme project led by the University of Bologna. This project began in January 1997; it is based around the World Register of Serials maintained by the ISSN International Centre in Paris. CASA is designed to provide the users of libraries and information professionals with access to better information about journals and other periodicals. The Data Library's role has been to identify appropriate standards and routing, such as the use of Z39.50 to allow distributed access, and to allow article-level bibliographic descriptions to be linked with information on 'who holds what'.
For many years Data Library staff have been active members of the International Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST), 'an international organisation of individuals who are engaged in the acquisition, processing, maintenance and distribution of machine-readable text and/or numeric social science data'. The membership of IASSIST, which was founded some 20 years ago, includes information system specialists, database librarians or administrators, archivists, researchers, programmers and managers. Peter Burnhill is currently IASSIST President, and was previously its Vice President and European Secretary, Alison Bayley is the Assistant Treasurer. IASSIST holds an annual conference in the USA or Canada for three years out of four and in Europe in the fourth year. The Data Library hosted the conference in Edinburgh in 1993. The 2000 conference was held at North West University, Chicago, U.S.A. The 2001 conference will be held in Amsterdam.
The EDINA Management Group meets under the chairmanship of Richard Field, Vice Principal, Academic Services & Information Strategy, to consult and advise the Director about the general direction and strategy for EDINA. After guidance from the MAU, the role of the EDINA Management Board has become more active.
In planning for the future, EDINA has a number of challenges and opportunities consistent with its mission and strategic aims.
The first is associated with services in the 'traditional' area of the 'digital library'. For this, EDINA will seek to add to its portfolio of specialist bibliographic datasets, going beyond this to establish its role with respect to services which help users locate, request and access services on the full text of articles. This requires active discussions about the relation between EDINA and NESLI, the National Electronic Site Licensing Initiative.
A second major challenge for EDINA is to expand its research data and geographic data services - 'to put data into the digital library'. This has been a continuing challenge for EDINA and the Data Library, reflecting international concerns on how best to provide researchers with access to research data.
Being based in the Data Library, EDINA has an extensive understanding of the needs and support requirements of users with regard to research data. However, the experience of the Digimap service is that these resources can be made accessible to a much wider constituency, motivating widespread IT literacy as well as the adoption of 'information skills'. A good working relationship has been developed between EDINA/Data Library and a variety of research data providers, and we plan to build on this.
The Digimap service was successfully launched in January 2000. It is undergoing substantial technical redevelopment, in parallel with its first year of operation, to introduce Laser-Scan software for map creation on the EDINA server. This will result in improved capacity on the existing service, and a new facility within Digimap, to be called Digimap Carto, which will offer greater flexibility in users' selection of scale, content and size of maps. A separate tool called Digimap Gazetteer is being developed to allow users flexibility in downloading gazetteer data from Digimap.
The trial services in the Digimap.Plus Project, which deliver access to Ordnance Survey historic digital map data and metadata, to promote the study of the 'changing landscape', may translate into additional datasets within the Digimap service in the future.
Funding under JISC 5/99 for a new project ("Digimap New Tools"), which will run throughout 2001 and 2002 and will enhance Digimap's usefulness for learning and teaching, has been secured.
Particular attention is to be paid to the needs of the Further Education sector, and in particular how EDINA's services can enhance its productivity in learning and teaching. The original focus was on serving the needs of UK Higher Education. However, as a national data centre EDINA is willing to respond to the challenge of providing services that meet the needs of Further Education and the demands of life-long learning, as well as continuing to meet the requirements of scholarship and the wider world of research.
A further challenge, and opportunity, is that posed by the emergence and importance of sub-UK and regional focuses of activity. The development of most relevance to EDINA is clearly that of the Scottish Parliament, following on that of the creation and policy operation of SHEFC. EDINA is increasingly being approached to act as the Scottish data centre, as it has the requisite range of resources and experience in providing online data services, and has some guarantee of continued existence.
The overriding challenge is that of collaborative interworking with our partners to deliver cost-effective and salient services to our principal 'market': staff and students in UK Higher and Further Education. This includes working with other data centres, with the RDN faculty hubs and, most notably, with other academic support staff.
EDINA has been successful in securing project funding following its response to JISC Requests for Proposals (RfP) for "Enhancing JISC Services to take part in the DNER" and "Enhancing JISC Activities for Learning and Teaching". The experience of working on these projects, and the deliverables resulting, will have an impact on EDINA's services. In each project, collaboration with other organisations within the academic community is involved, and it is hoped that a shared view of the structure and uses of the DNER can be developed by this co-operation.
The JISC national data centres operate in three interacting areas undergoing rapid change: the information infrastructure for UK Higher and Further Education (especially that funded and co-ordinated by the JISC and the funding councils), the global information economy (especially as it relates to resources for scholarship), and the information technology industry. To sustain an effective existence as a JISC national data centre, EDINA must attend to technical development and to business development. This includes attention to staffing issues: recruitment, staff retention, staff development and appropriate terms and conditions - lengths of contracts and levels of remuneration.
The existing hardware has been in service since July 1996. Replacement of the hardware deployed to support the EDINA Services is proposed during the Academic Year 2001/2002. This allows the impact of the uptake of the delivery of Ordnance Survey data via Digimap to be assessed before the procurement.
| PCI | Palmer's | BIOSIS | UKBORDERS™ | Art Abstracts | Ei Compendex | Inspec | Digimap | Art Index | |
| Academic Services Information | X | X | |||||||
| Anglia Polytechnic University | X | X | X | X | |||||
| Aston University | X | X | X | ||||||
| Bath College of Higher Education | X | ||||||||
| Bath Spa University College | X | ||||||||
| Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) | X | X | X | ||||||
| Babraham Institute | X | X | |||||||
| Horticulture Research International | X | X | |||||||
| Institute of Animal Health, Compton | X | X | |||||||
| Institute of Animal Health, Pirbright | X | X | |||||||
| Institute of Animal Health, Neuropathogenesis Unit | X | X | |||||||
| Institute of Arable Crops Research | X | X | |||||||
| Institute of Arable Crops Research, Rothamsted | X | X | |||||||
| Institute of Food Research, Norwich | X | X | |||||||
| Institute of Food Research, Reading | X | X | |||||||
| Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research | X | X | |||||||
| John Innes Centre | X | X | |||||||
| Roslin Institute | X | X | |||||||
| Silsoe Research Institute |
X |
X |
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| PCI | Palmer's | BIOSIS | UKBORDERS™ | Art Abstracts | Ei Compendex | Inspec | Digimap | Art Index | |
| Bishop Grosseteste College | X | ||||||||
| Bolton Institute of Higher Education | X | ||||||||
| Bournemouth University | X | X | X | X | |||||
| Bradford and Ilkley Community College |
X |
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| Brunel, The University of West London | X | X | |||||||
| Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education | X | ||||||||
| Canterbury Christ Church University College | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| Central Science Laboratory | X | ||||||||
| Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School | X | ||||||||
| Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| Chester College of Higher Education | X | X | X | X | |||||
| City University | X | ||||||||
| Courtauld Institute of Art | |||||||||
| Coventry University | |||||||||
| Cranfield University |
X |
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| De Montfort University |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| Derby University |
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* |
X |
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| PCI | Palmer's | BIOSIS | UKBORDERS™ | Art Abstracts | Ei Compendex | Inspec | Digimap | Art Index | |
| Dublin Institute of Technology | X | X | |||||||
| Dundee University | X | ||||||||
| Edge Hill University College | X | X | |||||||
| Edinburgh College of Art | * | X | X | X | |||||
| Falmouth College of Arts | X | ||||||||
| Friends of the Earth | X | ||||||||
| Glasgow Caledonian University | X | X | X | X | |||||
| Glasgow School of Art | * | * | X | X | |||||
| Goldsmiths College |
X |
X |
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| Heriot-Watt University |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| Imperial Cancer Research Fund |
X |
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| Imperial College of Science,Technology & Medicine | X | X | X | ||||||
| Institute of Education | X | ||||||||
| Institute of Historical Research | X | ||||||||
| Keele University | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| Kent Institute of Art and Design | X | ||||||||
| King Alfred's College | X | X | |||||||
| Kings College London | X | X | X | X | |||||
| Kingston University |
X |
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| PCI | Palmer's | BIOSIS | UKBORDERS™ | Art Abstracts | Ei Compendex | Inspec | Digimap | Art Index | |
| Lancaster University | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| Leeds College of Art and Design | X | ||||||||
| Leeds Metropolitan University | * | X | |||||||
| Liverpool John Moores University | X | X | X | X | |||||
| London Guildhall University | X | X | |||||||
| The London Institute | X | ||||||||
| London Research Center | X | ||||||||
| London School of Economics & Political Science | X | X | X | X | |||||
| London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | X | ||||||||
| Loughborough University | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| Manchester Metropolitan University | * | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| Middlesex University Higher Education Corporation | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| Napier University | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| National Foundation for Educational Research | X | ||||||||
| National University of Ireland, Galway | X | ||||||||
| PCI | Palmer's | BIOSIS | UKBORDERS™ | Art Abstracts | Ei Compendex | Inspec | Digimap | Art Index | |
| Natural Environment Research Council | X | X | |||||||
| Institute of Freshwater Ecology | X | X | |||||||
| British Antarctic Survey | X | ||||||||
| British Geological Survey | X | X | |||||||
| Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory | X | ||||||||
| Institute of Hydrology | X | X | |||||||
| Institute of Terrestrial Ecology | X | X | |||||||
| Institute of Virology and Environmental Microbiology | X | X | |||||||
| Plymouth Marine Laboratory | X | ||||||||
| Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory | X | ||||||||
| Southampton Oceanography Centre | X | ||||||||
| Nene College | X | X | X | X | |||||
| North East Wales Institute | X | X | X | ||||||
| Nottingham Trent University | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| Oxford Brookes University | * | * | X | X | X | X | |||
| Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology | X | ||||||||
| Plymouth University | X | X | |||||||
| Queen Mary & Westfield College |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| Queens University Belfast | X | X | X | X | |||||
| PCI | Palmer's | BIOSIS | UKBORDERS™ | Art Abstracts | Ei Compendex | Inspec | Digimap | Art Index | |
| Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication | X | ||||||||
| Robert Gordon University | X | X | |||||||
| Royal Holloway, University of London | X | X | |||||||
| Scottish Funding Council for Further and Higher Education | X | ||||||||
| School of Oriental and African Studies | X | ||||||||
| Sheffield Hallam University | X | X | X | ||||||
| Sheffield University | X | X | X | ||||||
| St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London | X | ||||||||
| Southbank University | X | X | |||||||
| Southampton Institute | X | ||||||||
| Southampton University | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| Staffordshire University | X | X | X | ||||||
| Surrey Institute of Art and Design | X | ||||||||
| Swansea Institute of Higher Education | X | X | |||||||
| The Open University | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| Thomas Danby College | X | ||||||||
| Trinity College, Dublin | X | ||||||||
| Trinity & All Saints University College | X | X | |||||||
| United Medical & Dental Schools of Guy's & St Thomas's Hospitals | X | ||||||||
| University of Abertay Dundee | X | ||||||||
| University of Aberdeen | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| University of Bath | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| University of Birmingham | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| University of Bradford | X | X | X | ||||||
| University of Brighton | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| University of Bristol | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| PCI | Palmer's | BIOSIS | UKBORDERS™ | Art Abstracts | Ei Compendex | Inspec | Digimap | Art Index | |
| University of Cambridge |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Central England |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Central Lancashire |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| University College, Chichester |
X |
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| University College, Cork |
X |
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| University College London |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| Birkbeck College |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| University College of Ripon and York St John |
X |
* |
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| University of Durham |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of East Anglia |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of East London |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Edinburgh |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
|
| Bush Agriculture Library & Information Centre |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| Hannah Research Institute |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| Macaulay Land Use Research Institute |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| Moredun Research Institute |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| Rowett Research Institute |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| Scottish Crop Research Institute |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| PCI | Palmer's | BIOSIS | UKBORDERS™ | Art Abstracts | Ei Compendex | Inspec | Digimap | Art Index | |
| Universities and Colleges Admissions Service |
X |
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| University of Essex |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Exeter |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Glamorgan |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Glasgow |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Greenwich |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Hertfordshire |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of the Highlands and Islands |
* |
* |
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| University of Hull |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Huddersfield |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Kent at Canterbury |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Leeds |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Lincolnshire and Humberside |
X |
X |
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| University of Liverpool |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of London Computer Centre |
X |
X |
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| University of Luton |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Manchester |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| PCI | Palmer's | BIOSIS | UKBORDERS™ | Art Abstracts | Ei Compendex | Inspec | Digimap | Art Index | |
| UMIST |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Newcastle |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of North London |
X |
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| University of Northumbria at Newcastle |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Northumbria at Newcastle |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Nottingham |
* |
X |
X |
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| University of Oxford |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Paisley |
X |
X |
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| University of Plymouth |
X |
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| University of Portsmouth |
* |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Reading |
X |
* |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Salford |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Sheffield |
X |
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| University of St Andrews |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Stirling |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Strathclyde |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Sunderland |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Surrey |
X |
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| University of Sussex |
X |
X |
X |
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| PCI | Palmer's | BIOSIS | UKBORDERS™ | Art Abstracts | Ei Compendex | Inspec | Digimap | Art Index | |
| University of Teesside |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of the West of England |
X |
X |
|||||||
| University of Ulster |
* |
* |
X |
X |
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| University of Wales, Aberystwyth |
X |
X |
X |
||||||
| University of Wales, Bangor |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Wales, Cardiff |
X |
X |
X |
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| University of Wales, College of Medicine |
X |
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| University of Wales, Institute of Cardiff |
X |
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| University of Wales, Lampeter |
X |
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| University of Wales, Newport |
* |
X |
X |
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| University of Wales, Swansea | X | X | X | ||||||
| University of Warwick | X | X | X | ||||||
| University of Westminster |
* |
X |
X |
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| University of Wolverhampton | X |
X |
X |
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| University College Worcester |
* |
X |
X |
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| Writtle Agricultural School | X | ||||||||
| University of York | X | X | X |
(Not all staff are funded by JISC)
| Business Development & Support Services |
Peter Burnhill: Director
Alison Bayley (PT): Deputy Director Ingrid Earp: Administrator (from 6/00) Alison Wallace: Administrator (until 3/00) Maureen Edwards: Administrative Assistant (from 2/00) Margarete Tubby-Hille: Business Development Manager Lloyd Owen: BSFP Project Officer |
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| Local Services |
Robin Rice: Data Librarian
Stuart Macdonald (PT): Data Library Assistant |
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| Helpdesk |
Barbara Morris (PT): Co-ordinator
Helen Kerr: Computing Assistant Paula Cuccurullo: Computing Assistant Stuart Macdonald (PT): Computing Assistant |
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| IT Technical Infrastructure |
Alan Ferguson: Manager & Software Engineer
Gavin Inglis: Software Engineer |
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| Bibliographic Services |
John Murison: Manager & Software Engineer
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| Research & Geo Data Services |
David Medyckyj-Scott: Manager & Project Leader
Barbara Morris (PT): Project Officer
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