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 was a collaborative project between the two National Data Centres (NDCs). Users were able to discover resources on the existing Copac and SUNCAT services and then access a table of contents service (Zetoc) as well as be presented with a series of options that linked to systems and services offering Interlibrary Lending, licensed electronic resources, free resources and pay to view resources.

It responded to the proposal put forth by JISC, RLUK and the BL that 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 was to divide the Project into four distinct, although interrelated, work areas. Each of these work areas was led by a member of staff from one of the National Data Centres (NDCs) but there was input from staff from each of the NDCs into all the work areas. Teams at both NDCs reported to a local project manager, who coordinated NDC collaboration, communications and reporting.

The work areas were:

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 took primary responsibility for work areas 2 and 3 and EDINA staff for work areas 1 and 4.

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

Project Deliverables

The key deliverables were:

• 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