The
National
Monograph
Strategy
Collaboration and access
to resources: the National
Monograph Strategy
A lesson in collaboration …
What Jisc is and does …
Jisc is the UK's trusted, expert body for digital technologies and resources for education and research. Its role is to
take on the tasks that benefit all by being done cost-effectively at the UK level. Jisc’s purpose is to help UK F/HE
succeed, by enabling it to make the best strategic and practical use of digital technology and digital resources.
It offers …
• Leadership, innovation and invention
• Advancement through relationship building
• Trusted expertise
• Collective procurement and negotiation
• Constantly evolving services
• New services and solutions
We listen before we act …
Changing trends in loans, visits & the use of e-books – SCONUL, June 2015
http://www.sconul.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Analysis%20_Loans%20ebooks%20visits%20June%202015.pdf
We try to predict the future…
6 years
Changing trends in loans, visits & the use of e-books – SCONUL, June 2015
http://www.sconul.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Analysis%20_Loans%20ebooks%20visits%20June%202015.pdf
We ask the experts …
(source: Jisc Bibliographic Data Roadmap Group: September 2014 - January 2015)
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Print Management (space management)
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Collection Management
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Collaboration to reduce duplication (of data, cataloguing effort, resource investment)
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Data Quality
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De-duplication for disambiguation (of resource items)
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Discovery of digital surrogates
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Metadata and persistent identifiers
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Building sustainable and effective platforms
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National and international authority sources
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National coverage
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Licensing, rights and permissions for access
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The procurement, management and discovery of e-books
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International engagement
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Data formats and emerging opportunities for exploiting data
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Preservation and conservation
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Consuming the data and the end user perspective
http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5857/1/BDRG_1_Notes_FINAL.docx
http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5858/1/BDRG_Notes_2_Final.docx
Jisc, SCONUL and RLUK are closely cooperating to define new
strategies and approaches to bibliographic data …
• We are in favour of the most open solution set that can be
imagined in relation to a UK aggregation of bibliographic data
• We agree on the importance of innovation, agility and scale
• Whilst we believe that we need to look beyond the UK for
solutions (to deliver innovation, agility and scale) we recognise
that UK control is key to safeguarding and delivering national
interests
• We believe the wider library community may have lingering trust
issues with suppliers and vendors but we need to get past that.
Clear governance, fall-back and exit mechanisms will help
• We are keen for business options to be tested with all credible
suppliers
Why
Monographs?
Long-form Print
Publications
Print Reference
Volumes &
Historical Books
Print
Monographs
of Research in
Book Format
Digitised
Surrogates of
Printed Books
Edited
Collections of
Essays or
Scholarly
Editions
Print journals
e-Books
Open Access
Monographs
Licensed and
Bundled
Academic
e-Books
e-Journals
The National Monograph Strategy
2012 - 2014
A (very) big vision for services circa 2012
Create a National Monograph Knowledgebase (the ‘Monobase’)
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Bibliographic and holdings data
Usage, sales and citation data
Licensing and subscription data
Cultural Heritage and public library data
Agree a National Digitisation Strategy
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Shared digitisation capability
Collections management decision support
An international registry of digital surrogates
Coordinated storage of digitised masters for preservation
Build a Shared Monograph Publishing Platform
- Open Access publishing for monographs
Develop a National Licence for Monographs
- Negotiation, licensing and administration
Reminiscent of 2010/11 …?
2015 Thinking …
All expenditure in Jisc is scrutinised very
closely
Budgets are difficult to secure
Jisc customer priorities determine service
provision
It’s all about choices and prioritisation
NMS Roadmap published
NMS Project
Co-design
Phase Ends
Jisc
Digital Resources
Bibliographic Data
Roadmap Group
Jisc Digital Futures
January 2014
NMS Budget
re-allocation
September 2014
2012
February 2015
Scope & Explore
Options
Undertake
Pathfinder
Activity
July 2015
August 2015
Specify Solutions
& Services
July 2016
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Bibliographic Data
Services Strategic
Implications
Report
NMS2
Planning &
Coordination
3rd Party
Services &
Partnerships
August 2016
Towards Service
Provision
Timeline
Copac /
CCM
Vendors &
Service Providers
Jisc Collections
KB+
JUSP
Meta
Data
HathiTrust
Internet Archive
Google Books
Shared
Print
Book Data
UK Academic
Institutions
Digital
Access
Licensing
Rights
Permissions
to monographs
New Digitised
Monograph
Surrogates
Landscape
circa July 2015
& Learner
Funders and Very
Senior Managers
New
Monograph
Publishing
Platforms
Open Access
Publishing
New
Business
Models
REF
2020 &
2026
Front & Back
List Digitisation
Yes … it’s all very complicated!
But what can we actually do to make some
progress?
1. Build a larger aggregation of UK library data
2. Make data flow as freely and as openly as possible in all useful
directions
3. Ensure that libraries have access to better quality data and more
effective tools to manage their collections
Jisc ITT released March 2015
Awarded to Sero Consulting Ltd. & Associates
3 month project May - July
Activities:
• Produce a detailed stakeholder map
• Create a set of plausible future scenarios
• Undertake analysis of the available scenarios and the emerging findings
• Set out the tactical and technical steps that may be required and the likely levels of investment required
• Validate the scenarios and check implications with sector representatives and domain experts
• Synthesise conclusions and produce a report
1.
Build a larger aggregation of UK library data
New Paradigm
Legacy Approach
Copac as resource
discovery service and
bespoke aggregator of
selected data sources
UK Academic
Libraries
Public Libraries
DATA
International
Data Sources
Collections
Management
Discovery
Research
1.
Build a larger aggregation of UK library data
Scope & Explore
Options
Undertake
Pathfinder
Activity
August 2015
Specify Solutions
& Services
July 2016
Collaboration opportunities …
• Augment the Copac team
• Increase the number of contributing libraries to Copac
• Library consortia working together to understand scale
• Investigate the best way of delivering the ‘Monobase’
Collaboration and Access to Resources: the National Monograph Strategy
The
Monobase
2. Make data flow as freely and as
openly as possible in all useful
directions
UK Academic
Libraries
Public Libraries
DATA
Discovery
Systems
International
Data Sources
Open Linked Data
2. Make data flow as freely and as
openly as possible in all useful
directions
August 2015
DATA
July 2016
Collaboration opportunities …
• Devise 3rd party collaboration agreements (e.g. OCLC)
• Examine options for Jisc library support services integration
• Examine the legal basis for digitising and sharing content
• Libraries working with the Copac team to streamline data aggregation
• Libraries and others ensuring (wherever possible) that data is openly licensed
3. Ensure that libraries have access to better quality data
and more effective tools to manage their collections
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3. Ensure that libraries have access to better quality data
and more effective tools to manage their collections
Digital Methods
Collections
Management
August 2015
July 2016
Collaboration Opportunities …
• Understand collection management needs
• Understand what economies and efficiencies better tools can realise
• Develop community owned tools and collaborate with third parties to
licence tools
Research
What are we aiming to achieve?
• To deliver new capabilities
• To open up new research opportunities
Collaboration will provide more economic and more
effective solutions
Discovery
Thank you!
Get in touch if you’ve got questions or ideas