This is an interim blog post, to refelct on the progress of the project so far, and discuss the exciting new developments for the project. Over the past 6 months, we have been looking at electronic resource management, and have had the opportunity to examine our workflows, and present these for the various scenarios that we currently operate. From the workflows, we have created a preliminary set of requirements for an ERM, which can be used by other institutions. We have applied the MoSCoW methodology to the requirements document, in order to prioritise our needs.

We are now in a position where the Salfmeri work is being further developed by the University in the SCONUL Shared Services strand of the JISC LMS programme, The current ERM Requirements and Workflow deliverables be will enhanced as part of that process. We aim to have 3 open source ERMs operational, in order for us to assess how easy they are to install, and also to walk through their functionality. We will continue to blog here, and also on the SCONUL project blog once it has been established.

Post 1 : Project Aims and Objectives

The overall aim of the project is to produce a use case of ERM systems and a preliminary set of requirements for an electronic resource management system, for use by the University of Salford and other HE institutions and system suppliers.

To facilitate this, the project will:

• Review current manual processes that are in operation at the University of Salford
• Identify the issues these systems present
• Evaluate commercial systems and the limitations of these systems in meeting the demands of the HE community
• Compile a requirements document that is robust and can be adopted by the wider community