Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
Since its establishment in 2009, SHEDL, the Scottish Higher Education Digital Library, has generated much interest, especially in other parts of the UK
From 2003 onwards, the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) has encouraged the establishment of ‘research pooling’ initiatives, bringing together researchers from a number of Scottish higher education institutions (HEIs) to form a critical mass in particular subject fields
At the time of writing, this study is as yet unpublished, but it does confirm the increase in usage of 41%, which is well above what might be considered a standard ‘trend’ increase of around 20% in e-journal usage year on year
Summary
Since its establishment in 2009, SHEDL, the Scottish Higher Education Digital Library, has generated much interest, especially in other parts of the UK. While Scotland’s research output continues to operate at the highest international impact level,[5] there are concerns that research teams may not be of sufficient size to maximize economies of scale and that research funding allocations may suffer To counteract this fear, from 2003 onwards, the SFC has encouraged the establishment of ‘research pooling’ initiatives, bringing together researchers from a number of Scottish HEIs to form a critical mass in particular subject fields. The relevant SFC web page lists 13 current research pools.[6] The initial establishment of research pools took no account of differences in information access between members in, for example, the large researchintensive universities and those in smaller institutions unable to provide such a wide range of information resources. Members of SCURL felt that these consortia provided examples and opportunities for emulation, in improving access to information for research and learning purposes in a small country
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