Discovery to Delivery at EDINA and Mimas

Title

Discovery to Delivery at EDINA and Mimas

Acronym

D2D@E&M

Duration

1 August 2008 – 31 July 2009

Website

Discovery to Delivery at EDINA and Mimas

Summary

Discovery to Delivery at EDINA and Mimas is a collaborative project between the two National Data Centres (NDCs). Users will be able to discover resources on the existing Copac and SUNCAT services and then be able to access a table of contents service (Zetoc) as well as be presented with a series of options which will link to systems and services offering Interlibrary Lending, licensed electronic resources, free resources and pay to view resources.

It responds to the proposal put forth by JISC, RLUK and the BL which requested projects where discovery services could work together effectively as pieces of the UK e-infrastructure to help to provide seamless access and delivery. The approach being taken is to divide the Project into 4 distinct, although interrelated, work areas. Each of these work areas will be led by a member of staff from one of the National Data Centres (NDCs) but there will be input from staff from each of the NDCs into all the work areas. Teams at both NDCs will report to a local project manager, who will coordinate NDC collaboration, communications and reporting.

The work areas are:

1. Scholarly Communications website and scoping portal
2. Personalisation and Institutional Profiling
3. Linking through to Tables of Contents
4. Final Access and Delivery using Brokers and Registries

Mimas staff will take primary responsibility for work areas 2 and 3 and EDINA staff for work areas 1 and 4.

Within each of the work areas there are a number of work packages which are based on coherent groupings of tasks.

Project Deliverables

The key deliverables will be:

• A scholarly communications web site
• Scoping of a scholarly communications portal
• Authentication and identification mechanisms on Copac and SUNCAT
• My local library facility on Copac
• Reusable marked list function on Copac
• Table of Contents linking from Copac to Zetoc
• Table of Contents linking from SUNCAT to Zetoc
• SUNCAT and Copac linking to other TOCs services
• Demonstrator allowing Copac users access to ILL services
• Development of components, including a Broker, providing users of discovery services with linking to final access and delivery services

EDINA Contact

Fred Guy, Project Manager

Funders

JISC

Partnerships

Mimas