An Investigation of Information Systems Interoperability in UK Universities: Findings and Recommendations

Abstract

A series of detailed recommendations enumerate some of the ways in which they might begin to develop and support an interoperable systems landscape to the benefit of all key stakeholders.The project combined quantitative and qualitative research methods including an online questionnaire distributed to staff within 85 universities, desk research, and two case studies conducted at the Universities of Cambridge and Glasgow.

Come Together: Interdepartmental Collaboration to Connect the IR and Library Catalog

“…In 2009, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) funded a large-scale investigation, the Online Catalogue and Repository Interoperability Study (OCRIS), which highlighted the need for institutional repositories (IR) and online library catalogs to communicate with one another. 1 Though there are many issues to consider to achieve full interaction between the two systems, one simple step that academic libraries can take toward this goal is to employ automated harvesting from the IR to the library catalog. With an enterprising, collaborative team approach, metadata harvests are easy to implement with even limited staffing and resources.…”