Presentation given at the RLUK Members' Meeting 2013

1. 15.11.2013
National Monographs Strategy

2. Ben Showers
Programme Manager:
Digital Infrastructure
b.showers@jisc.ac.uk
@benshowers

3. Outline
1.
Background
A brief history of
the project
2.
Approach
3.
Next steps
Methodology and
work so far
Project outputs and
next phase

4. 1
Background
History/Aims/Principles/Governance

5. Background
Approach
Next steps
Co-design pilot with SCONUL
and RLUK (until December 2013)
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/research/funding

6. Background
Approach
Next steps
Aims to explore the potential for a
national approach to the
collection, preservation, supply and
digitisation of scholarly monographs
http://bit.ly/nmsabout

7. Background
Approach
http://bit.ly/nmsabout
Next steps

8. Background
Approach
Next steps
Expert advisory panel
Librarians, publishers, r
esearchers, funders, se
ctor bodies.
http://bit.ly/expertnms

9. Background
Approach
Outputs
1. Landscape study
2. Problems report
3. Solutions report
http://bit.ly/nmsabout
Next steps

10. Background
Approach
Next steps
Project Principles:
1. Think in the open
2. Community led
3. No solutions (until November)
4. Evidence based
5. Iteration, not repetition
6. Deliver benefits for T, L & R
http://bit.ly/nmsprinciples

11. 2
Approach
Understand/Imagine/Create

12. Background
Approach
Next steps
Mapping the
monographs landscape
(with help!)
http://bit.ly/nmslandscape

13. Understand
Approach
Imagine: Solutions
Mapping user lifecycles and
stakeholders
http://bit.ly/nmsmapping

14. Background
Approach
Next steps
Exploring the problem space
http://bit.ly/nmsproblems

15. Background
Approach
Next steps
Begin to define the problems a
National Monograph Strategy
should address
http://bit.ly/nmsproblems

16. Background
Approach
Next steps
Exploring the solutions space
http://bit.ly/nmssolutions

17. Background
Approach
Next steps
Begin to sketch solutions in
response to the NMS problem
statements
http://bit.ly/nmssolutions

18. Background
Approach
Next steps
The final workshop
http://bit.ly/nmsgetinvolved

19. Background
Approach
Next steps

20. 3
Next Steps…
Workshops/Final Report/Strategy/Pilots

21. Background
Approach
Next steps
• Co-design the draft report
(with SCONUL and RLUK)
• Deliver final report - 31st
December

22. Background
Approach
Next steps
This is just a small part: The
beginning.

23. Background
Approach
Next steps
Drafting the strategy

24. Background
Approach
Next steps
Prototyping and piloting

25. Background
Approach
We need
Next steps
your help!

26. Background
Approach
Next steps
The blog:
http://monographs.jiscinvolve.org
Twitter: @benshowers
Via RLUK
http://bit.ly/nmsgetinvolved

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