Manchester united in supporting UK academia: recent developments atthe UK's largest academic datacentre

摘要

This is not a paper about strategic directions for Digital Libraryndevelopment. It deliberately focuses on what is being put in place rightnnow in an effort to better support academic endeavour in particularnusing electronic materials. The examples are all drawn from the UK'snlargest academic datacentre, Manchester Computing, at the University ofnManchester, which, in addition to supporting local needs, receivesnfunding to host services for use by the UK academic community. Thesenservices include networking, visualisation, datasets and softwarenprovision. Many of the needs being met will be common to a widerncommunity