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<center><b>Project ACORN Finished 28th May 1998</b>
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<h2>What was Project ACORN?</h2>
<B>Project ACORN</B> aimed to develop a transferable model for the whole
process of providing electronic access to short loan journal articles. A
unique feature of this project was its emphasis on using a third party
agent, in this case, <a href="http://www.swets.nl/">Swets UK Ltd.</a> for
copyright clearance and digitisation of text.
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<h2>Project Funding</h2>
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<td>Project ACORN was part of the Electronic Libraries Programme (<A
HREF="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/">eLib</A>) , which was set up
and funded by the <a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/">Joint
Information Systems Committee</a> in the light of the <A
HREF="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/papers/follett/report/">Follett
Report</a>. The <a
href="http://www.niss.ac.uk/education/jasper/intro.html">Joint
Information Services Committee</a> is itself funded by the UK Higher
Education Funding Councils.
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Project ACORN sat within the Electronic Short Loan strand of the <a
href="http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/services/elib/">eLib</a> Programme.
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Read more about Project ACORN
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<center><i>Last Updated : October 1998</i>
<p>All enquiries to <a href="mailto:E.Gadd@lboro.ac.uk">E.Gadd@lboro.ac.uk</A>
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