The UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) demonstrated the feasibility of creating a community trusted by publishers and others to manage rights issues. HERON has been established to take this work forward and to provide a service for all UK Higher Education establishments.

There will be a resource bank of copyright-cleared materials available for use. HERON, a partnership of HE institutions and Blackwell’s, will manage this and provide fair returns to rightsholders.

It will provide benefits for students, HE, publishers, authors and bookstores

HERON: Electronic Delivery of Course Materials

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Today’s studentsToday’s students

DispersedMany campusesAt home

PoorChanging funding basis

They need readily available, tailored learning materials

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Library and Faculty responseLibrary and Faculty response

Reserve and short loan collectionsIncrease in photocopyingFaculty still expect paper-based

materials

None of this helps poverty or dispersion

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Why On-Demand and E- Reserve?Why On-Demand and E- Reserve?

Offering students convenient access: via paper course packs via online delivery

Allowing librarians to shift scarce resources from inflexible and inadequate traditional methods

Enabling academic staff to tailor course packs & assigned reading

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What’s happening with What’s happening with Electronic Reserve in the UK?Electronic Reserve in the UK?For example

SCOPE tested on-demand course packs & e-reserve in Scotland

Phoenix tested on-demand course pack in London & Huddersfield

ACORN tested e-reserve for copyright cleared e-text periodicals

Subject specific projects testing demand for course packs and electronic collection access in business, psychology, sociology etc.

HERON (Aug98-Aug01) tests the commercial viability of

course pack and electronic reserve service to UK HEIs

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What we have learnedWhat we have learned

It’s feasible (on a small scale)Possible to work with rightsholdersUK HE is a responsible community

Time for a larger scale activity ..... HERON

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Who are the Project Partners?Who are the Project Partners?

University of Stirling (ex-SCOPE)

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Blackwell's (Bookshops and Information Services)

South Bank University (ex-PHOENIX)

Napier University, Edinburgh

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Aims of the ProjectAims of the Project

Improve quality of learning through widening access to course materials

Remove blockages in copyright clearance Determine appropriate fees & conditions

for electronic access to course materialsOffer opportunities for UK HEIs to market

their own learning resources

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Necessary Conditions for Necessary Conditions for Successful On-demand & E- Successful On-demand & E- ReserveReserveStreamlined copyright clearanceReduced or shared costs of digitizationCritical mass of high-demand quality

electronic textsIntegration of OD/ER into teachingAppropriate institutional support / IT

infrastructure

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Critical MassCritical Mass Resource bank: commercially published

retrodigitised and electronic text (including eLib materials; HE texts)

Database: Bibliographic, keyword, TOCs, DOls, IMS - compliant

Gateway: rights clearance and digitization service, links to other resource banks

Advisory service: training & set-up Closed subscriber group: UK HEIs

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Culture ChangeCulture Change

Current demand is for documents originally published on paper

How far off is primary dependence on electronic publication?

Will there be a shared corpus of quality controlled materials?

HERON will move in this direction

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If you’d like to see how the project progresses visit us on…

www.stir.ac.uk/infoserv/heron

We will also be starting a listserv in 1999