Edinburgh has edged its way into FileOpen. One or two of our academics have used it very successfully and I was able to persuade our IT people to at least install it in a small bank of pcs in one of the Open labs. One of my colleagues tested it there without difficulty and IT have now rolled it out into the Open Labs. Unfortunately, our Colleges have more devolved control over their systems. However the IT person who did the Open Lab work for us has circulated information to the Colleges so that they can decide themselves whether or not to go down that road.
Things are looking quite promising...
Marjory Lobban
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Edinburgh University Library
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Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 10:35 AM
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Subject: Re: Introducing FileOpen
We too are looking at moving from Digital Editions to FileOpen for our electronic document delivery. We work in a very similar environment with direct delivery to users who may be using The PCs in our Learning Resources Centres or their own individual machines.
We would be grateful for responses to Margaret's email be posted to the list
Thanks
Karen Allen
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From: For interlibrary-loan and document supply services. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Margaret Dillon
Sent: 18 January 2010 10:06
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Subject: Introducing FileOpen
Dear Colleagues
We are looking at moving from SED to FileOpen for our electronic document delivery from the British Library.
Reports so far suggest it is a superior product and overcomes the limitations of using Adobe Digital editions.
As our documents are delivered directly to end users, lots using shared pcs, FileOpen would have to be rolled out across campus by our IT department.
I don't yet know if they would be prepared to do this so would be very grateful to hear from any other institutions who have gone down this route.
Has it been successful, what are the pitfalls, what are the advantages, is it stable, etc?
Many thanks in advance for any information you have.
Regards
Margaret Dillon
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Interlending and Document Supply
J B Morrell Library
University of York
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