Update on the UK Shared Academic Knowledge Base December 2011

Introduction

• Objectives• Deliverables of Phase 1• Governance• Technical development strategy• Supplier engagement• Progress• Licensing• Next steps

Objectives

Provide an accurate and relevant knowledge base

Support data sharing between library systems

Minimise the duplication of staff effort

Improve return on investment from systems

Increase productivity through shared activity

Key Deliverables of Phase 1• KB+ platform with user interface to allow academic institutions, suppliers,

publishers and others to navigate, manage and manipulate data, supported by access management and permission tools.

• Verified, accurate and up-to-date publication information for NESLi2, JISC eCollections, SHEDL and WHEEL agreements in KBART format, suitable for use by link-resolvers

• Subscription management information – such as post-cancellation access entitlement information, contact information, access management records.

• Licences in machine readable formats for NESLi2, major JISC Collections and major non-JISC Collections agreements

• Usage statistics in machine readable format for NESLi2 publishers and other publishers stored within the Journals Usage Statistics Portal.

• Alerting services covering renewals, opt outs, service availability and disruption.

• Workflow management tools related to the selection, review, renewal and cancellation of publications.

Quality

KB+Verification

Title lists

Holdings

Licences

Usage statistics

Alerts

Workflow

Academic Institutions

Phase One Deliverables

Data

Standards

Interoperability

Shared Activity

Business Model

Legal Model

JISC Services

Publishers

Systems Vendors

Subscription Agents

Registration Agencies

PrinciplesParticipants

Governance

• Project Board– Dr Richard Parsons, University of Dundee (Chair)– Anne Bell, SCONUL and University of Warwick– Rachel Bruce, JISC Executive– Peter Burnhill, EDINA– Lorraine Estelle, JISC Collections – Nicholas Lewis, Chair of Community Advisory Group and

University of East Anglia– Ross MacIntyre, MIMAS– Fiona Parsons, SCONUL and University of Wolverhampton– Mark Toole, Chair of Technical Advisory Group and University of

Stirling

Technical Advisory Group

• Mark Toole, University of Stirling, (Chair)

• Chris Awre, University of Hull • Chris Keene, University of Sussex • Paul Needham, Cranfield University• Paul Stainthorpe, University of Lincoln• Dave Pattern, University of Huddersfield• Paul Walk, UKOLN• Amy Warner, Royal Holloway, University of London• Michael Winkler, University of Pennsylvania and OLE

Community Advisory Group

• Nick Lewis, University of East Anglia (Chair)

• Angela Conyers, Birmingham City University and Evidence Base (JUSP)

• Nick Woolley, KCL• Tracey Randall, Bangor University • Sarah Pearson, University of Birmingham/KBART• Kristin Antellman, UNSU and KUALI • Kate Price, University of Surrey • Alison Brock, Open University • Suzanne Enright, University of Westminster

Supplier engagement• Supplier Event – October 2011

– Ex Libris– EBSCO– Innovative Interfaces– OCLC– Swets– Capita (Talis)– UKSG/KBART– EDItEUR– Ringgold– LAC Group– COUNTER– Sirsi Dynix– Serials Solutions

• Follow up meetings have been held, or organised with all of the suppliers and to date all of them have signalled that they would like to be involved

• Issues around conceptualistion of journal agreements

• All 44 NESLi2 publishers approached for KBART compliant title lists

Recommendations

• Hosted and Mediated Knowledge Base Plus– Community centric ‘above campus’ knowledge

base– Mediation and validation by a trusted third party– Integrated management tools– Linked to UK licensing initiatives– Works in conjunction with existing market

offeringsKnowledge Base Plus – a shared service for subscription resources.

http://sconulerm.jiscinvolve.org/wp/David Kay and Owen Stephens 2011

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Three Layers of Licensing

JISC Model Licence

Licence Comparison Tool

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Next steps

• Employment of technical lead and commencement of development

• IPR framework– Commercial confidentiality– Data Protection– Licensing

• Business models• Data sources

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