SCONE is one of a number of inter-related projects and initiatives relevant to the development of a virtual union catalogue for Scotland, associated cooperative collection management activities, and the integration of the two through the use of collection descriptions to aid user navigation in the virtual union catalogue:

CAIRNS: Co-operative Academic Information Retrieval Network for Scotland project
CAIRNS Service: Co-operative Information Retrieval Network for Scotland
Catriona II:Approaches to university management of electronic resources
CoSMiC: Confederation of Scottish Mini Co-operatives
CDLR: Centre for Digital Library Research
GDL: Glasgow Digital Library
DIO: Digital Information Office
HILT: High-Level Thesaurus project
RCO: Research Collections Online
The Scottish Datasets Initiative
SCURL: Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries
SEED
SLIC: Scottish Library and Information Council
SPI: Scottish Portals Initiative
SPIS: Shared Preservation in Scotland

Also, the SCONE project is a member of Celtic Collections. This is a group of RSLP funded projects located in Scotland, Ireland and Wales with similar remits, to improve resource discovery for researchers. The other members of the group are:

Collections Wales (Mapping Wales project)
RASCAL: Research and Special Collections Available Locally (Northern Ireland) (RASCAL project)
© SCONE: Scottish Collections Network Extensions
Page last updated: 11 Oct 2002