Brophy, 'LIBRES European Column June 1995', LIBRES v5n02 (July 31, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/libres/libres-v5n02-brophy-libres LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal ISSN 1058-6768 1995 Volume 5 Issue 2; July 31. Quarterly LIBRE5N2_BROPHY ____________________________________________________________ LIBRES European Column June 1995 Professor Peter Brophy University Librarian, & Head, Centre for Research in Library & Information Management University of Central Lancashire, Preston, U.K. Europe-wide interest has concentrated on the first Call for Proposals under the New Libraries Programme of the European Commission, the deadline for which passed on June 15th. The results will be known, at least to those who are successful, by the end of the summer although a period of intense negotiation to finalise details will follow. Also under the Programme, the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA) has continued its work on the European Copyright User Platform (ECUP), with seminars in most European countries having been held to discuss copyright issues in relation to the electronic library. Coincidentally, the Copyright in Transmitted Electronic Documents (CITED) Final Report has been published. This work was carried out under the European Commission's ESPRIT programme and provides a detailed model for electronic document usage control. The Report is available from the British Library Copyright Office, tel. +44 937 546124. In the UK attention has been focused on the Follett Implementation Group for Information Technology (FIGIT) which has now announced details of the first projects to be funded under the "Electronic Libraries Programme". Five areas of activity are covered as detailed below: ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DELIVERY: sample projects: "Electronic Document Delivery: The Integrated Solution" (EDDIS) described as having the objective "to produce an integrated end user driven identification, holdings discovery, ordering and electronic supply service for document delivery" and led by the University of East Anglia; "Sharing of Educational Resources in an Electronic Network in Wales" (SEREN), which is "a geographically based Document Delivery service by a consortium of libraries in an all-Wales context" and is led by the University College of North Wales, Bangor. TRAINING AND AWARENESS: sample projects: "Network Skills Training for Users of the Electronic Library" (NETSKILLS), "a project to provide a comprehensive national network skills training programme aimed at shifting the culture within higher education institutions towards awareness and widespread use of networked information resources", led by Newcastle University; "Educational Development for Higher Education Library Staff", "a national programme to identify and provide the skills needed by librarians in fulfilling the training roles identified in the Follett Report", led by Hull University. ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: sample projects: "*Internet Archaeology*: an international journal for archaeology" under the leadership of the Council for British Architecture and the University of York; "The CLIC Project", "a parallel version of an established journal - *Chemical Communications*"; "Learning Societies Support Service", which is described as having the aim of defining "the parameters required for use of electronic networks by smaller learned society publishers". ON DEMAND PUBLISHING: sample projects: "The Secure Student Access Project" led by Nottingham Trent University and designed "to improve the availability of recommended reading to students by developing and promoting simple, flexible licensing arrangements for multiple student access to materials stored electronically"; "Project Phoenix" from South Bank University which is concerned with "the implementation of electronic storage and print techniques to supply text to students". ACCESS TO NETWORK RESOURCES: sample projects: "Organising Medical Networked Information" (OMNI), in which the Institute or Medical Research and the University of Nottingham are collaborating "to build a gateway to facilitate access to high quality information about clinical, research and management aspects of health and biomedicine"; the "Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library" (EEVL) from Heriot Watt University, "a project to build a gateway for the higher education and research community to facilitate access to high quality information resources in Engineering". Further information about the Electronic Libraries Programme is available from Chris Rusbridge, the Programme Director (C.A. Rusbridge@warwick.ac.uk). ________________________________________ This document may be circulated freely with the following statement included in its entirety: Copyright Peter Brophy, 1995. 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