1. Digitising Journals, 13-14 March 2000, Copenhagen Astrid Wissenburg Information Services and Systems King’s College London astrid.wissenburg@kcl.ac.uk

2. Astrid Wissenburg, Digitising Journals, 13-14 March 2000, Copenhagen Background - Funding in UK HE Higher Education Funding Councils  Joint Information Systems Committee (1993 onwards, appr. annual funding £35m) www.jisc.ac.uk  Electronic Libraries programme www.ukoln.ac.uk /elib/ –phase I and II (1995-1999, appr. funding £15m for 3 years) –phase III (1998-2001, appr. funding £5m )

3. Astrid Wissenburg, Digitising Journals, 13-14 March 2000, Copenhagen eLib Phase I and II 60 projects Access to Network Resources Digitisation Electronic Document Delivery Electronic Journals Electronic Short Loan Projects Images On Demand Publishing Pre-prints Quality Assurance Supporting Studies Training and Awareness

4. Astrid Wissenburg, Digitising Journals, 13-14 March 2000, Copenhagen eLib Phase III Hybrid Libraries (5 projects) Large Scale Resource Discovery (Clumps) (4 projects) Digital Preservation (1 project) Projects to services –extensions of existing projects –EPRESS (Electronic Publishing Resource Service) –HERON (Higher Education Resources ON-demand)

5. Astrid Wissenburg, Digitising Journals, 13-14 March 2000, Copenhagen Some examples ….  Internet Library of Early Journals www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/  CLIC: a parallel electronic version of an established journal - Chemical Communications www.ch.ic.ac.uk/clic/  The Journals and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, digitisation by HEDS (Higher Education Digitisation Service) www.ingentajournals.bids.ac.uk/Pub- info/rgs.html  BUILDER (Birmingham University Integrated Library Development and Electronic Resource) which e.g. digitised Midland History www.builder.bham.ac.uk/midlandhistory/

6. Astrid Wissenburg, Digitising Journals, 13-14 March 2000, Copenhagen And some more …..  Superjournal project http://www.superjournal.ac.uk/sj/  LAMBDA (Electronic Document Delivery in London and Manchester) lamdaweb.mcc.ac.uk  HERON (Higher Education Resources ON-demand) http://www.stir.ac.uk/infoserv/heron/

7. Astrid Wissenburg, Digitising Journals, 13-14 March 2000, Copenhagen Reasons for digitisation and project characteristics Why? –Ownership and copyright –Archiving Emphasis on providing access to recent years Collaboration with publishers Small scale digitisation projects, often with professional associations

8. Astrid Wissenburg, Digitising Journals, 13-14 March 2000, Copenhagen Technical standards Resolutions: –Scanning/archiving: 600 dpi (min 300dpi) –Delivery: 300 dpi File formats: –Archiving: TIFF –Delivery: PDF with Hidden Text

9. Astrid Wissenburg, Digitising Journals, 13-14 March 2000, Copenhagen Presentation and Access Table of Contents Searching bibliographical metadata free text searches based on uncorrected OCR PDF delivery of articles free access to metadata subscription for full articles: often linked to print subscriptions

10. Astrid Wissenburg, Digitising Journals, 13-14 March 2000, Copenhagen Costs –Scanning is cheap –Proof reading is expensive –Costs of continued access are unclear Examples (all per page) –scanning £0.20 –scanning plus indexing £0.75 –scanning plus proof-reading£3.00 –all cost, including management£4.20 –continued access (annually)£0.03 –archiving (annually)£0.02

11. Astrid Wissenburg, Digitising Journals, 13-14 March 2000, Copenhagen Other JISC programmes PSLI: Pilot-Site Licensing Initiative (completed) NESLI: National Electronic Site Licensing Initiative (1998-2002) www.nesli.ac.uk The Distributed National Electronic Resource: a managed environment for accessing quality assured information resources on the Internet which are available from many sources http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub99/dner_vision.html

12. Astrid Wissenburg, Digitising Journals, 13-14 March 2000, Copenhagen So, where does that leave the academic libraries in the UK... Many new and imaginative services Print and electronic subscriptions are still often combined Archiving and continued access remains a concern No space savings Proliferation of interfaces and access arrangements Institutional costs continue to rise ….

13. Digitising Journals, 13-14 March 2000, Copenhagen Astrid Wissenburg Information Services and Systems King’s College London astrid.wissenburg@kcl.ac.uk