Knowledge Exchange
Knowledge Exchange is founded on an agreement between four partner organisations, to collaborate for a period of three years (2008 – 2011), in an effort to improve the digital infrastructure for information and communication technology as it relates to the research and university library sectors. Knowledge Exchange enables all four partner organisations to combine their strengths and speak with one voice.
The initiative was established in 2005 and is organised on 3 year terms.
The four Knowledge Exchange partner organisations are:
– Denmark’s Electronic Research Library (DEFF) in Denmark
– German Research Foundation (DFG) in Germany
– Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom
– SURF in the Netherlands
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The European partners of Knowledge Exchange, DEFF, DFG, JISC and SURFfoundation, share a common vision based on four national strategies. That vision is:
To make a layer of scholarly and scientific content openly available on the Internet.
In order to realise this goal, the partners will support existing and new programmes on national and international levels, co-ordinating their efforts on the following priorities:
– Building an integrated repository infrastructure
– Exploring new developments in the future of publishing
– Facilitating integrated management services within education and research institutions
– Supporting the European digital libraries agenda.
The benefits that Knowledge Exchange expects to achieve with this vision are:
– For learners and practitioners: Free access to a diverse range of high quality learning materials
– For researchers: Online access to collaboration tools and research resources, including the very latest data and research findings
– For institutions: The ability to effectively manage their information resources and technologies
– For governments and national funding organisations: An aid to lifelong learning.
