New plans to open up UK resources revealed
New plans to open up library, archive and museum collections will make it easier for researchers and students to access resources, according to a taskforce announcing its vision today.
At the moment it can be difficult for researchers to access books and information held in different places because the data is incompatible with the web services they use to search the collections.
But under the new vision to be led by JISC and Research Libraries UK individual universities, libraries, archives and museums would share information about their collections, so-called