Partnerships

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Partnerships

• 24th Jan 2008, York
• Roddy MacLeod
• Senior Subject Librarian, Heriot-Watt University
• r.a.macleod_at_hw.ac.uk

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Partnership

• An association of persons joined as partners in
  some action or endeavour

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ticTOCs

• Project to develop a freely available service
  which will transform journal current awareness by
  making it easy for academics and researchers to
  find, display, store, combine and reuse tables of
  contents (TOCs) from multiple publishers in a
  personalisable web based environment.

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ticTOCs Partners (15)
Lead institution
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Gold Dust

• Develop innovatory solutions to the problem of
  information overload. Deliver highly relevant,
  personalised current awareness content of a
  variety of kinds to academics, without the need
  for any input by those academics, in a flexible
  way, from within selected JISC and non-JISC
  presentation services.

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Gold Dust Partners (12)
Lead institution
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Gold Dust Project Associates (6)
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Roles
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ticTOCs
Content
Interactive Web environment
Community Networking possibilities
Select Personalise Aggregate
Display
Directory of Publishers TOC RSS Feeds
Export
Re-use
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ticTOCs
Content
Interactive Web environment
Community Networking possibilities
Select Personalise Aggregate
Display
Directory of Publishers TOC RSS Feeds
Export
Re-use
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Database and Interactive Web environment
Front end
Back end
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Support
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Testing
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Taking a punt on the business plan for the future
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Communications
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Communications

• Email / JISCmail list
• Blog / updates
• Wiki
• Website
• Phone / Skype
• Meetings
• Project Plan / Task List

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• Keep It Simple, Stupid

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Eager Geek Project Manager

• You may well have a bit more enthusiasm for your
  project than some of your partners

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Reward / ROI / Recognition
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Reward / ROI / Recognition
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Not-for-profit
Universities, etc
For profit publishers
Professional societies
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Not-for-profit
Universities, etc
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Universities, etc
For profit publishers
Not-for-profit
(fec doesnt all costs)
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Reward / ROI / Recognition
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• Dont over-burden the partners

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Consortium agreement
Cowboys dont use oxter skoosh
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Summary

• Roles ensure all partners are clear about their
  roles
• Communications use appropriate methods, keep
  things simple, dont expect partners to read 100
  page reports
• Reward/ROI/Recognition partners expectations
  will vary. Some receive funding, some expect a
  return on investment, all want recognition
• Burdens dont over-burden partners beyond their
  expectation
• Consortium Agreement helps to make the legal
  position clear

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Good luck to us all!