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Yitzchak, NCSU has E-Matrix but I do not know if they're still using it or no http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/e-matrix/ Releasing your ERMS as open-source is always useful. Karim Boughida [log in to unmask] >>> Yitzchak Schaffer <[log in to unmask]> 2008-02-14 13:36 >>> Greetings -- We are finally working on putting together a proper ERMS. Our internal structure is consortium-like, with member institutions able to buy into our resources; so although we are a Serials Solutions client, it seems their system is not capable of handling this. I know from experience that we've had to stretch the custom-name fields in the user display to indicate which members have access to which resources. We are following the DLF ERM report closely, at least in designing the database, which is where we're at now. My questions: firstly, are there any other such projects going on out there? I've looked at the HERMES webpage [http://hermes.mse.jhu.edu:8008/hermesdocs/] which was helpful, but it seems that they stopped releasing code with 0.1 who knows how long ago. The DLF report itself refers to that project. My pokings-around haven't yielded any recent open-source/other homegrown projects informed by their initiative. Secondly: would anyone out there be potentially interested in using our ERMS if we would end up releasing it as open-source? (FreERMS[tm]?) Up until now we have been steering towards a implementation-specific database design, omitting parts of the DLF report prototype, but if others are interested, perhaps it makes sense to extend it to include other elements. Any thoughts and suggestions are welcome. Thanks! -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x230 Fax (212) 627-3197 [log in to unmask]