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Research Councils UK (RCUK) launched its call for evidence in Open Access Review 17 July 2014. In this report we provide evidence of the effectiveness and impact of the RCUK policy with regard to our main role as an HEI. ...

In April 2013, the revised Research Councils UK (RCUK) policy on Open Access came into effect; it applies to the publication of peer-reviewed research articles that acknowledge funding from the UK’s Research Councils that ...

This article examines Edinburgh University Library’s experience of using OCLC’s Co-operative Online Resource Catalogue (CORC). It discusses the project phase of CORC, its functionality, including automatic metadata harvesting ...

This article summarises the findings of two OCLC research reports which recently documented how university research is assessed in five countries and the role research libraries play in the various schemes. Libraries’ ...

This chapter discusses the many real-life issues encountered during the development process of a combined e-theses and e-print repository which ultimately became the Edinburgh Research Archive.

We begin by looking at the concept of institutional repositories within the broader context of digital libraries. ‘Digital libraries’ can mean many things, but we consider them to be libraries first and foremost, and built ...

This paper describes the growing use of virtual learning environments (VLE) in learning and teaching in UK higher education. The distinction between content management and its presentation by web delivery systems is ...