The software has now been taken by Talis Information for formal evaluation with a view to 'productising' it. Midland History goes live The electronic version of the academic journal Midland History has now been released. The full text of the back issues from 1971-1997 are now available in Adobe PDF to subscribers anywhere in the world over the Web. A rolling programme of digitisation will continue, with Adobe PDF being retained as a delivery format in the medium term. A Z target has now been installed at the University of Birmingham in partnership with Talis Information.
Work is also underway to install Z origin capability.
A set of read routines to the Talis system are in place and now work has commenced on the write routines. It is planned to create Active Workspaces on a new server where these new routines can be used by both Information Services staff and academic staff. Authentication Work continues on a system which will allow a single login procedure for users at the beginning of their online session. An XML interface has also been introduced. Five academic staff from the School of Business participated in the initial pilot and it is already clear that more staff from the School want electronic texts to be provided to support learning on their courses.