Introduction

The UK Research Reserve (UKRR) is a collaborative distributed national research collection managed by a partnership between the Higher Education sector and the British Library. It allows Higher Education libraries to de-duplicate their journal holdings of a title if two copies are held by other UKRR members, ensuring continued access to low-use journals, whilst allowing libraries to release space to meet the changing needs of their users.

Phase One of UKRR showed the effectiveness of creating a shared collection of low-use journals, with eight Higher Education libraries releasing over 11,000 metres of shelving through coordinated de-duplication.

UKRR is now in Phase Two, and is continuing its work building a sustainable national research collection. Having received funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), it has the ambitious target of releasing 100 km of shelf space by 2015.

 

UKRR at NASIG 2013 Conference UKRR presents ‘Collaboration in a Time of Change’ on Sunday 9th June. More here   CTLes team visit UKRR The team from CTLes visited UKRR at Imperial College London in April. More here   UKRR Extension Thanks to HEFCE’s support, UKRR has been extended to 31 January 2015. More here   Delegates from French initiative visit UKRR UKRR met with delegates from CTLes and the French Ministry of Education in February 2013. More here   UKRR at RLUK collections workshop UKRR presented the paper ‘Transition Complete?’ at RLUK’s ‘Redefining the Research Library Model’ workshop. More here