RLUK

Between 1983 and 2008, RLUK operated as CURL. Over that quarter-century of activity, we sponsored some of the major free online UK resources in support of research, including Copac, a union catalogue of the holdings of over 60 UK national, academic, and specialist libraries, the Archives Hub, a national gateway to descriptions of UK archives of interest to education and research., and the award-winning SHERPA, whose aim is to facilitate the rapid and efficient worldwide dissemination of research output. More recent projects include partnerships with RUGIT on the UK Research Data Services initiative and with JSTOR and JISC as part of the 19th Century Pamphlets Online digitization of 1 million pages of pamphlet material for use by researchers, as well as co-sponsoring with JISC the most fundamental redesign of the UK's metadata infrastructure since our own inception. RLUK is proud of its past and confident of its future in the global information age.