Affiliate Organisations Membership is a non-financial membership, designed to assist the Strategic Content Alliance in developing and deploying the UK Content Framework.

Affiliate members of the SCA receive the following benefits:

  • Take part in an online annual review (delivery via online survey form) of Alliance outputs which will feed into future work
  • Take part in workshops/ conference attendance to encourage the development of Alliance tools, guides and report recommendations which will ensure dissemination of outputs as well as exposure of the Affiliate’s brand and continued involvement.
  • Exclusive invitation-only events which are restricted to affiliate and sponsoring organisations
  • Contribute to the Alliance moderated wiki (‘Digipedia’) which shall act as a ‘Knowledge base’ for practitioners and policy makers on the digital content life-cycle.
  • Free subscription to Digital Content Quarterly
  • Exclusive blog and email for affiliate and sponsoring organisations

Organisations that have agreed to join the SCA as affiliate members include:

  • Library and Information Services Council, Northern Ireland
  • Napier University, Edinburgh
  • The National Library of Wales
  • The National Library of Scotland
  • University of Cardiff
  • University of Swansea
  • Research Information Network
  • Queen’s University Belfast
  • Library and Information Services Council (Northern Ireland)
  • University of Glamorgan
  • House of Commons Library
  • Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum

To find out more about affiliate membership, please download the Memorandum of Understanding:

Memorandum of Understanding for affiliated organisations (December 2009)

and contact Stuart Dempster or Sarah Fahmy for further information.