DISCOVERY TO DELIVERY

• Aims and objectives
• Project methodology
• Implications
• Deliverables
• Stakeholders
• Project team

Aims and objectives

The overall aim of the project is to improve the quality of the user experience for UK researchers and students in their tasks of finding and gaining access to scholarly publications. It will do this in a number of ways.

First of all, coherency will be established between JISC funded services, namely Copac, SUNCAT and Zetoc. This will be achieved through the creation of a scholarly communications website (together with scoping for a portal) and by establishing links from discovery services (Copac and SUNCAT) to Zetoc (tables of content service).

Secondly, there will be work carried out to offer a series of options, via a Broker, once discovery has been made. The options to be offered will include linking to ILL services in institutions, as well as establishing user entitlements to services and offering access to pay to view.

Thirdly, the project will develop facilities, which will allow users to personalise their requirements. The proposed services will be considered within the context of the JISC Information Environment, the e-framework and local institutional provision.