JISC

JISC invites proposals to undertake a review of core JISC resource-discovery services. The purpose of the review is twofold:  it will assess potential for convergence and economies of scale in the underlying technologies used to deliver the services; it will look at how the services may be enhanced with new technologies in order to support flexible integration across the services and within the wider resource discovery environment such as library management systems, digital repositories or search engines.

It is anticipated that the review will begin in April 2006 and will provide the evaluative report by the middle of May 2006. A final advisory report will be expected by the end of July 2006.  The recommendations from the review will inform decisions about the provision of services and also development activity that might be required to enhance the services or their use.

Funding of up to £50,000 including VAT is available for this study.