UK Research Reserve, UKRR - where we are and where to go from here? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

UK Research Reserve, UKRR - where we are and where to go from here? Daryl Yang, UKRR Manager , November 2015

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UKRR

UKRR is .... a collaborative, coordinated and sustainable approach to long-term retention, storage and access to low use print research journals.

Our objectives  De-duplicate low-use material (journals) and thus release space and realise savings/efficiency &  Preserve research material and provide access for researchers Cultural Change

Collection Models Core Approach Pip Approach Offering Processing Core collection

Phase One  Funded by HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England)  Partners  British Library  Universities: - Birmingham - Cardiff - Exeter - Liverpool - Southampton - Newcastle - St. Andrews - Imperial College London  Over 11,000m

UKRR Today  Phase Two – until January 2016  29 Members, 2 Contributors  6-month cycle to process data  90,000m/79,000 holdings  Dispose: 81%  Recurrent Estate Saving: £2.5m/p.a.  Capital Saving: £25m  Retain: 18% (16,500 holdings)

Ithaka S+R | Jisc | RLUK Survey http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5209/1/UK_Survey_of_Academics_2012_FINAL.pdf

What to keep?

Shelf Checking Member BL Collection Offerings

Scarcity Checking (SUNCAT) Member F Member E Member D Member A Member B Member Z Member C

LARCH – Linked Automated Register of Collaborative Holdings

UKRR Top 50 (2) 60 50 40 Science (SCI) Medicine (MED) Social Science (SOC) 30 Arts and Humanities (AAH) Maths and Engineering (MAE) 20 Total SCI, MED & MAE Total AAH & SOC 10 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Monographs  ‘There appeared to be no strong demand for a large scale national initiative like UKRR ’ --- Strategic Management of Monographs Discussion Forum 2011  White Rose project  Working group

Phase Three  February 2016  Current + new  3-year period (August 2019)  UKRR Data

Finally  Time of change  Wide range of challenges  Uncertainties associated with digital content Print gives us control and absolute ownership of the content and the material  Print Registry

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