All entries for Wednesday 21 March 2007

Scanning and the British Library new service

Yesterday the RIU hosted a Scanning Practice event for the UK HE community. We held the event in the Mathematics building which was a very nice venue. I learnt much that I would do differently were I to host such an event again, but overall it went very well. One point of warning to anyone else planning an event in room MS04: the air conditioning is very noisy! But Maintenance did manage to do something about it for us for the afternoon.

We had presentations from 4 other Universities about their scanning under the licence, including one about the CLA audit process. We also had a presentation from the BL where we learnt the following about their new service for supplying unencrypted files for use under the CLA Trial Scanning Licence:

• orders are being processed through the ARTEmail service [or the ARTTel that we use].
• Cost per item is : £7.45 + copyright fee
  (Copyright fee is variable for journal articles and is £5 for book chapters.)
• BL do not check what is covered by the CLA trial scanning licence: you must do this yourselves.
• The turn-around time for the standard service fee of £ 7.45 is 2-5 days, but it is often done within 24h and you can pay extra to get a guaranteed 24h turn around, and even more for within 2 hours.

I also presented the results of our survey of what other HEIs are doing with the licence, and some interesting statistics from the CLA.

It was a great opportunity to network and meet others in similar situations to ourselves. Very reassuring to know what the others are doing, and especially to hear about the CLA audit.

Jenny Delasalle : 21 Mar 2007 13:43 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem