Scottish Higher Education Digital Library (SHEDL)

["Tony Kidd" <T.Kidd@lib.gla.ac.uk>]

With apologies for cross-posting

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*Scottish Higher Education Digital Library (SHEDL)*

The Final Report of an Investigative Study into the establishment 
of a Scottish Higher Education Digital Library was launched on 
Friday 5 October at a meeting in Edinburgh. The study was 
sponsored by the Scottish Confederation of University and 
Research Libraries (SCURL), and funded by the Universities of 
Edinburgh and Glasgow. The Report, and its Executive Summary, are 
available on the SCURL website at:

<http://scurl.ac.uk/>

The Study was carried out for SCURL by John Cox, of John Cox 
Associates <http://www.johncoxassociates.com>. The Report sets 
out a rationale for greatly improving access to electronic 
information resources, particularly e-journals, for all Scottish 
higher education institutions, and supplies a series of options 
for structure and governance, funding, consultative mechanisms, 
and content acquisition strategies, in order to take SHEDL 
forward to implementation.

The members of SCURL will now review the Report findings, and 
consider the next steps to be taken.

Please contact Jill Evans, SCURL Service Development Manager 
(j.evans@nls.uk) or Tony Kidd, Chair, SHEDL Steering Group 
(t.kidd@lib.gla.ac.uk) for further information.

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