SHEDL - Scottish Higher Education Digital Library
SHEDL aims through collaboration and combined purchasing power to achieve a shared digital library in Scotland with easier access to online content to support research and learning and teaching.
Led by the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL), SHEDL is the first super-consortial purchasing scheme of its kind in the UK. It's success, facilitated by JISC Collections, has provided the nineteen Scottish Higher Education Institutions with access to over 1850 online journals from leading academic publishers; American Chemical Society (ACS), Berg, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Edinburgh University Press (EUP), Intellect, Oxford University Press (OUP), Project Muse, Springer, and also Portico.
Following its launch in January 2009 SHEDL has quickly made an impact in eliminating differential access to journal content across the sector. It gives students access to a larger range and number of electronic journals and provides a better research infrastructure for Scotland’s universities, especially those initiatives that pool research and collaborate across institutions.
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