Lowering the barriers from Discovery to Delivery: a JISC funded EDINA and Mimas project
Abstract
Purpose
The paper aims to describe the context and the progress with the UK Discovery to Delivery project.
Design/methodology/approach
Having set the scene for Discovery to Delivery, the paper describes how the project work was divided into four separate but interlinked strands. The methodologies for each strand are described and the outcomes are critically assessed.
Findings
The project was successful in demonstrating that services created separately by different organisations could be enhanced to provide a seamless approach from discovery to delivery for users. It had been planned to develop a link to local document supply services, but investigation revealed that further investigation would be required before such a service could usefully be supplied.
Originality/value
The project is an example of inter‐working between the national data centres with services that have already been established.
Keywords
Citation
Guy, F. and Elizabeth Palmer, J. (2010), "Lowering the barriers from Discovery to Delivery: a JISC funded EDINA and Mimas project", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 38 No. 3, pp. 158-167. https://doi.org/10.1108/02641611011072350
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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