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SCOPE is administered by the Follett Implementation
Group on Information Technology(FIGIT) and funded by
the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
SCOPE is an on-demand publishing project in
the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).

SCOPE

Scottish Collaborative On-demand Publishing Enterprise

In 1995 the University of Stirling was awarded a grant of £426 000 from the UK Higher Education Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to fund the Scottish Collaborative On-demand Publishing Enterprise (SCOPE). SCOPE is an On-Demand Publishing project in the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).

SCOPE is a consortium of 13 Scottish higher education institutions including all but one of the Scottish universities. The lead site is Stirling University which houses the Copyright Unit; its partner is Napier University in Edinburgh which houses the Technical Unit.

The University of Stirling is well placed to lead this project in that it was one of the first to merge successfully its library, computer, print and media services. Napier University's department of Print Media, Publishing and Communication has considerable expertise in both publishing and production matters.

SCOPE aims to address some of the problems facing academic libraries that were identified in the report of the Libraries Review chaired by Professor Sir Brian Follett in 1993. Specifically, SCOPE aims to ease pressure on libraries by developing alternative forms of provision of a wide range of articles and book chapters to students in large undergraduate classes. The project team is developing an electronic resource bank of readings. Where appropriate, materials selected by lecturers are printed and bound in customized course packs and supplied to students at a rate that they can afford to pay. At a later stage of the project staff and students at SCOPE consortium member institutions will have the option of online access to the resource bank. The SCOPE online delivery system will be piloted at Stirling University in the spring semester of 1997.

More information about SCOPE

SCOPE Annual Report Year 1 (Web version 21/10/96)
SCOPE Annual Report Year 2
SCOPE Evaluation Plan
SCOPE Electronic Copyright Management System (Cactus)

SCOPE Copyright Unit
SCOPE Technical Unit

SCOPE Aims and achievements

SCOPE Model Contract

SCOPE Consortium Members
SCOPE Project Board
SCOPE Project Team
SCOPE Copyright Advisory Panel
SCOPE Technical Advisory Panel

Electronic discussion lists

[University Library] [Information Services] [University Information]

SCOPE Copyright Unit, The Library, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA
Tel: 01786 466617
Fax: 01786 466866

Carolyn Rowlinson, Project Coordinator e-mail: c.a.g.rowlinson@stir.ac.uk
Terry Williams, Copyright Officer, e-mail: t.j.williams@stir.ac.uk
Helen Pickering, Liaison Officer, e-mail: h.v.pickering@stir.ac.uk
SCOPE Technical Unit, Napier University, Craighouse Road, Edinburgh EH10 5DT
George Pitcher, Technical Manager, e-mail: g.pitcher@napier.ac.uk

Last updated on 27 August, 1997.