Ayris2008

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES
NHS/HE Forum Content
Group
Dr Paul Ayris
Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer
e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk

Contents
 Work in the context of the NHS/HE Forum
 Priorities for NHS/HE Content Group
 Joint Procurement
 Open Access repositories
 Copyright
 Next steps

NHS/HE Forum
 NHS/HE Content Group acts under the umbrella of
NHS/HE Forum
 http://www.nhs-he.org.uk/content.html
 Work Plan for the Group to be reformulated following
recent review of NHS Library Services in England
 Membership (who from NHS [including NLH], HE [including new
SCONUL Health Strategy Group], JISC Strategic Content Alliance
[NHS a signatory], and Peter Hill too
 Agenda – to be formulated in wake of the recent Review Report

Priorities – Joint Procurement
 Joint Procurement
 Joint procurement between HE and the NHS is a recommendation
from the Review
 A previous attempt failed – Why?
Lack of agreement over content
Who will pay? – no alignment of funding cycles between NHS
and HE
 Licence which embraces both NHS and HE was a deliverable
 Time to look at issue of joint procurement again

Priorities – Open Access repositories
 Development of Open Access repositories for the NHS
recommended by Review Report
 Opportunity for NHS/HE Content Group to work with
stakeholders to deliver this vision
 Technical leads in NHS/HE Forum important here
 Collaboration with SHERPA would produce results
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk
International model of good practice

90% of its
funded
research is
available
online
40%
‘How accessible is NHS-funded research to the general
public and to the NHS's own researchers?’ M. Cockerill,
2004 at
http://www.biomedcefsntral.com/openaccess/inquiry/refe
rsubmission.PDF
UK National
Health
Service
% available
to an NHS
hospital?

Priorities - Copyright
 Copyright
 One of the building blocks of the digital age
 Two areas of work where collaboration could take place:
 Joint responses to national consultations
E.g. UK Intellectual Property Office’s current consultation on
fair dealing/library privilege following the Gowers Report
Is NHS making a submission to this?

Priorities - Copyright
 Work needs to be done in both HE and NHS CLA licences
 There are difficulties in interpreting relevant licences – e.g.
Rights of a student on clinical placement in an NHS site
Copying required by an NHS consultant when he/she sends
secretary to Library run on HE premises
 Work on licences needs to ensure that each constituency
receives equitable treatment when using both NHS and HE
resources

Next Steps
 Peter Hill’s Review of NHS Library Services in England is
the driver for:
 Re-formulation of the NHS/HE Content Group in terms of
membership and agenda
 NHS/HE Content Group can lead/co-ordinate discussions in three
areas:
Joint Procurement
Open Access Repositories
Copyright Licences
 The Group is happy to hear your views…

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