UK Research Reserve, UKRR - where we are and where to go from here?

Daryl Yang, UKRR Manager, November 2015

We have so much STUFF and so little

SPACE

We need to update our system and

increase demand for our services

UKRR

UKRR

UKRR is ....

a collaborative, coordinated and sustainable approach to long-term retention, storage and access to low use print research journals.

Our objectives

De-duplicate low-use material (journals) and thus release space and realise savings/efficiency

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Preserve research material and provide access for researchers

Cultural Change

Collection Models

Core Approach Pip Approach

Offering Processing Core collection

Phase One

Funded by HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England)

Partners

British Library

Universities:

- Birmingham - Cardiff - Exeter

- Liverpool - Southampton

- Newcastle - St. Andrews

- Imperial College London

Over 11,000m

UKRR Today

Phase Two – until January 2016

29 Members, 2 Contributors

6-month cycle to process data

90,000m/79,000 holdings

Dispose: 81%

Recurrent Estate Saving: £2.5m/p.a.

Capital Saving: £25m

Retain: 18% (16,500 holdings)

Ithaka S+R | Jisc | RLUK Survey

http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5209/1/UK_Survey_of_Academics_2012_FINAL.pdf

What to keep?

Shelf Checking

BL Collection

Member Offerings

Member Z

Scarcity Checking (SUNCAT)

Member A

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Member B

Member C

Member D

Member F

LARCH – Linked Automated Register of Collaborative Holdings

UKRR Top 50 (2)

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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Science (SCI)

Medicine (MED)

Social Science (SOC)

Arts and Humanities (AAH)

Maths and Engineering (MAE)

Total SCI, MED & MAE

Total AAH & SOC

Monographs

‘There appeared to be no strong demand for a large scale national initiative like UKRR’ --- Strategic Management of Monographs Discussion Forum 2011

White Rose project

Working group

Phase Three

February 2016

Current + new

3-year period (August 2019)

UKRR Data

Finally

Time of change

Wide range of challenges

Uncertainties associated with digital content

Print Registry

Print gives us control and absolute ownership of the content and the material

Thank you