An interesting idea for "resource sharing" (as the library terminology seems to be).
The role of the UKRR would be to provide a venue for coordinated reduction in collection sizes, for securing the future of the higher education 'collective collection', and to provide ongoing access. The idea is that at least 3 copies of any item would be kept, one at the BL and one each at at least 2 other libraries who would agree to commit to long term retention.
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This is a natural evolution for the British Library. In her presentation to the meeting, Jan Wilkinson, of the British Library, discussed the decline in revenues from document supply, and how they looked to the UKRR as a way of replacing those revenues.
(The latter point being of interest as CISTI is also a leading doc del provider.)
see UK Research Reserve Update [pdf] for details
via Lorcan Dempsey - Research Reserve
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