Increasing Nereus membership

• By 2008, 20 top international academic institutions from European and US are Members of Nereus
• By 2008, concrete partnership exists with US institutions such as Harvard

Content

• A critical mass of at least 20 institutes’ content contribute to Nereus services
• Nereus services will contain a rich amount of open access content
• Nereus will have unlocked and made digitally available a number of different types of new content
• Nereus has explored purchasing content as a consortium, and if successful, has purchased new content
• Nereus has explored the creation of an online index to datasets, and if successful, has given access to new content in the form of a bibliographic data service
• Partner datasets have been made more easily available
• Resource overviews of the Nereus partner libraries exist
• A list of ca 200 Economics publishers and their self-archiving policies exists

Service development

• The Economists Online search service and showcase exists containing content from nearly 70 scholars exists
• The Economists Online search service and showcase exists containing content from 15 Nereus partners
• The Nereus top ten (statistics and visuals on institutions, researchers, etc. based on download and citation analysis) exists
• The Nereus index of economics resources exists
• The Nereus European governmental and intergovernmental publications service exists

Monitoring end users

• User studies exist on how users retrieve information for research from selected Nereus institutions
• A user study exists on versions and IR repository content, and Recommendations exist concerning versions of content related to IR archived material
• Data exists on user statistics from Nereus services
• The Nereus Scientific Advisory Board is regularly contacted for feedback

Benefits to Nereus members

• New material benefits are available for free to Nereus Members. A list exists
• Institutional Repository experience has been shared between Nereus Members where relevant
• A list of Nereus Workshops exists
• iPORT support has been supplied where necessary
• DSpace support has been supplied where necessary
• Portal choices and experience have been shared between Members where necessary
• Portlet development experience has been shared between Members where necessary

Public relations

• A list of events at which Nereus has been presented exists