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Discovery Tool
In 2011, the Discovery Tool project team studied the features of the Discovery Services offered by the four main providers, namely SUMMON, EBSCO, Primo and WorldCatLocal. Reports by sister organizations facing similar decisions were requested and read. The fact that OCLC did not market WorldCatLocal in Europe until 2011 meant that the views of [...]
Retrodigitization
This project began with a pilot study (April-October 2010), with the aim of formulating a protocol for digitizing various groups of material and making them available online, namely books and journals, and Greek papyri. These were chosen because it is expected that the majority of material that will be digitized will consist of texts and [...]
Ranking
The ‘Ranking’ project (‘A project to support the position of the University of Groningen in rankings’) is one of the projects in the context of University funding ‘IT 2010-2014’. The content of the project proposal was finally approved in May 2011, after various rounds of the University committee responsible for funding. The funding [...]
E-books
The E-book working group held five meetings during 2011. The main purpose of the meetings was to share knowledge and inform each other about the various aspects of online e-books. The following points were discussed at the meetings: Orientation on the various e-book platforms: A distinction is made between publisher platforms and DRM platforms. [...]