Library and Information Research Group

Refereed Article

Author

Jake Wallis is the researcher on the SAPIENS project. He has worked as a researcher at the Centre for Digital Library Research within the University of Strathclyde since 2000 when he completed his MSc at the University’s Graduate School of Informatics.
Centre for Digital Library Research, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Room 12.12, Livingstone Tower, 26 Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XQ, United Kingdom
E-mail: jake.wallis@strath.ac.uk

Abstract

This article describes the aims and continuing progress of the Scottish Academic Periodicals Implementing an Effective Networked Service (SAPIENS) project which has been running at the University of Strathclyde’s Centre for Digital Library Research since September 2001. Initially funded for two years, the project has been extended until October 2004.

The rationale behind SAPIENS is the concern that small Scottish publishers, operating on limited budgets, are in danger of finding themselves marginalised in the modern information environment. The project’s primary objectives are to explore the viability of, and launch, an electronic publishing service to assist small-scale Scottish publishers of academic and cultural periodicals to publish online. It has achieved these aims by implementing a demonstration service which is gradually moving into an operational mode, delivering current journals.