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05787438 Menzies, Kathleen Birrell, Duncan Dunsire, Gordon New evidence on the interoperability of information systems within UK universities. Lalmas, Mounia (ed.) et al., Research and advanced technology for digital libraries. 14th European conference, ECDL 2010, Glasgow, UK, September 6--10, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-15463-8/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6273, 104-115 (2010). 2010 Berlin: Springer EN interoperability digital libraries repositories catalogues standards resource discovery platforms

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_12

Summary: This paper will report on the key findings and implications of the JISC-funded Online Catalogue and Repository Interoperability Study (OCRIS), a 3 month project which investigated the interoperability of Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs) and Institutional Repositories (IRs) within UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The aims and objectives of the project included: surveying the extent to which repository content is in scope for OPACs and the extent to which it is already recorded there; listing the various services to managers, researchers, teachers and learners offered by these systems; identifying the potential for improvements in the links from repositories and/or OPACs to other institutional services such as finance or research administration. The project combined quantitative and qualitative methods; primarily, an online questionnaire distributed to staff within 85 UK HEIs, purposive sampling and two in-depth case studies conducted at the Universities of Cambridge and Glasgow.