SCOPE Annual Report
PROJECT YEAR 2

1 August 1996 - 31 July 1997 		SPACER SPACER SPACER SCOPE logo

Acknowledgements
Summary

1 Activities and progress
2 Learning from the process of implementation
3 Interim evaluation results
4 Future development
5 References

Appendices:
A SCOPE staff
B SCOPE Project Board
C SCOPE Copyright Advisory Panel
D SCOPE Technical Advisory Panel
E SCOPE Consortium member institutions and Library Representatives
F SCOPE Promotion and Liaison

Acknowledgements

The SCOPE team acknowledges gratefully the support of all members of the Project Board and the Copyright and Technical Advisory Panels, whose advice has been invaluable to us. We also wish to thank the SCOPE Library Representatives and the members of academic staff at the participating institutions; we are dependent on their energy and enthusiasm for the success of the project.

Our thanks are also due to the growing numbers of publishers and other rightsholders who have negotiated on the SCOPE model contract for licensing on-demand publishing and reached agreement with us.

Finally, we wish to give special thanks to Professor Bruce Royan, a founding member of SCOPE and its first Director, until he left the University of Stirling to become Chief Executive of the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network. We are delighted that he will remain Chairman of the Project Board and that we shall continue to benefit from his wide-ranging experience.

Summary

This, the second annual report of the SCOPE project, covers 1 August 1996 - 31 July 1997. It follows the eLib prescribed format and guidelines, and covers the eLib's reporting period. (Although the SCOPE project year is rather different, running from 15 May, all major milestones for year 2 are covered in this report.)

Highlights of the year have been:

We have continued to produce course packs. Further developments have been the production of a technically challenging engineering pack and publication of packs of institutionally-owned copyright material (a condensed textbook on finance and a software manual).

Importantly, through increased emphasis on evaluation, we have gained valuable insights into stakeholders' requirements and attitudes, which are informing the further development of the project and the preparation of our exit strategy.

SCOPE is administered by the Follett Implementation Group on Information Technology (FIGIT)

and funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee. SCOPE is an On-demand Publishing project in the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).

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