To add on to David's message earlier today about PerX, it is useful to know
that the cross-repository search tool is the result of a discipline-based
landscape analysis. Although PerX focuses on engineering, the model JISC
devised for conducting a subject-based environmental analysis is applicable
to other disciplines. My forthcoming DLF report, written in support of the
IMLS grant to build "the distributed library," not only highlights PerX, but
also recommends that the model could be productively applied to other
disciplines. To see how the methodology enfolds, link to "deliverables,"
http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/deliverables.htm.

Martha Brogan
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