- JISC strategy 2010–2012: A summary
21 Apr 2010JISC helps UK universities and colleges in the innovative use of technology, equipping them with new ways of working faster and better, through a range of programmes and services. This overview sets...
- Making it possible
13 Apr 2010Over the last decade JISC has invested its research and development funds in over 200 UK universities and colleges to create a collaborative innovation engine that has driven and delivered new...
- Enabling innovation 2006-2009
02 Feb 2010In 2006 JISC received additional capital funding from HEFCE to invest in: Networking/SuperJANET 5; Digitisation; e-learning; e-infrastructure/e-research; User environments; Repositories, shared...
- Enabling innovation/Galluogi arloesedd 2006-2009
02 Feb 2010In 2006 JISC received additional capital funding from HEFCE to invest in: Networking/SuperJANET 5; Digitisation; e-learning; e-infrastructure/e-research; User environments; Repositories, shared...
- JISC Strategy 2010-2012
01 Dec 2009The new JISC strategy for 2010–2012 comes amid serious economic recession in the UK and abroad, and in a period of unprecedented change in communication and information technologies. JISC will...
- Digital Content Quarterly 1
01 Dec 2009In this fast-paced, ever-changing environment the Strategic Content Alliance’s Digital Content Quarterly (DCQ) provides a news round-up of digital content issues from around the world,...
- JISC Inform 26
18 Nov 2009This edition looks at how digital technologies are helping colleges and universities reach out locally as well as internationally. A round-up of activity from JISC’s regional support centres shows...
- Impact of the economic downturn on University Library and IT services briefing paper
05 Oct 2009New research conducted by Ipsos MORI on behalf of JISC, SCONUL and UCISA shows that, although university library and Information Technology (IT) services may not yet be fully feeling the ‘pinch’ of...
- Impact of the economic recession on university library and IT services
05 Oct 2009The main focus of this research was to assess the impact of the economic downturn on university library and IT services. We conducted 40 interviews with representatives of each of these services in...
- Understanding global activity in higher education and research
10 Sep 2009This is the report of findings from a study that has looked at activities and developments in the fields of e-Learning and e-Infrastructure supporting the higher education and research sectors in ten...
- Jorum community bay
03 Sep 2009The Jorum Community Bay was conceived as a sandbox facility for developing and repurposing content for deposit into Jorum via a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
- Low carbon ICT
01 Aug 2009The purpose of this project was to provide a practical exemplar of how an institution can implement both the policies and the technologies to conserve energy used by desktop and server hardware with...
- Implementing an institutional repository for Leeds Metropolitan University
16 Jul 2009This project delivered a repository to serve a prioritised set of needs for Leeds Metropolitan University.
- Simple web-service offering repository deposit phase 2
30 Jun 2009The core aims of this project were to update the Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD) protocol, the SWORD repository code libraries in the DSpace, Fedora, EPrints and Intrallect...
- Good APIs: Review of good practice in the provision of machine interfaces & use of services
31 May 2009This project provides JISC and the sector with information and advice on the factors that encourage use of machine interfaces, based on existing practice.
- Multimedia annotation & community folksonomy building
17 Apr 2009This project has successfully achieved its aim of developing a web-based multimedia annotation tool to meet the important and pervasive user need of making multimedia web resources (e.g. podcasts)...
- Increasing repository content through automation & services
03 Apr 2009This project built upon the 1st phase of White Rose Research Online, a shared institutional repository for the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. The project aimed to increase content in...
- SkillClouds: Aggregating & presenting skills information to students
31 Mar 2009This project investigated whether tags and tag clouds might be a visually appealing way of aggregating and presenting skills information to students. We adopted a user-centred design approach to...
- Open habitat: Multi-user virtual environments for teaching & learning
31 Mar 2009This project explored the use of Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs) for teaching and learning. These MUVEs are commonly known as Virtual Worlds in which individuals in a 3D environment are...
- Pattern language network for web 2.0 learning
31 Mar 2009This project aimed to develop and demonstrate an effective community-based mechanism for capturing and sharing successful practice, based on the pattern approach. A pattern describes an effective...
- Embed
31 Mar 2009The Embed project set out to explore cultural barriers which constrain the engagement of research communities at two different institutions with their respective Institutional Repositories. Broadly...
- Appropriate & practical technologies for students, teachers, administrators & researchers
31 Mar 2009The project's aim has been to promote the use of new collaborative technologies to enhance teaching and learning practice. This has involved working with four main stakeholder groups in the...
- Extending & embedding the University of Worcester repository service
28 Mar 2009The project extended the university’s recently established learning and teaching repository (Learning Materials Online) to create a comprehensive university repository service. A significant part of...
- Doing Enterprise Architecture
23 Mar 2009At the beginning of 2008, JISC funded a pilot project which set out to explore the applicability of Enterprise Architecture (EA), a strategic management technique for enabling large companies to...
- Personal engagement with repositories through social network applications
18 Mar 2009This project examined an individuals’ interaction with a repository and investigated how social networking tools might facilitate connection between the institutional functions of the repository and...
- Modelling of Second Life environments
18 Mar 2009This project investigated the scaffolding and processes needed to enable groups of students in Higher Education to establish their socialisation and engagement for more productive information and...
- Flourish: Continuing professional development using PebblePad
18 Mar 2009The overall aims of this project were to ease the administrative burden experienced by learning, teaching and research practitioners at the University of Cumbria through the use of a flexible...
- Kings College London Enterprise Architecture Project
07 Mar 2009The Kings Colllege London Enterprise Architecture Project (KEAP) formed part of a larger project at King’s College London to develop a research infrastructure for the College. The aim of KEAP itself...
- Journal table of contents service
02 Mar 2009This project created a fully functioning suite of facilities dedicated to journal current awareness, based upon RSS feeds and Web 2.0 technologies. This ‘TOCosphere’ enables the smart aggregation,...
- Institutional Repositories Infrastructure for Scotland
09 Feb 2009This project has successfully brought together Universities across Scotland with other principal players in Scotland to explore the cultural and technical issues surrounding the development of an...
- Debating Innovation: JISC Innovation Forum 2008 final report
05 Jan 2009The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Innovation Forum 2008 (JIF08) was held at Keele University on 15 and 16 July 2008. It brought together over 300 people representing more than 100...
- ShareGeo
31 Dec 2008The aim of the ShareGeo project was to integrate a geospatial data sharing facility within the EDINA Digimap Collections suite of services.
- Improving the Evidence Base in Support of Sharing Learning Materials
31 Dec 2008This report aims to articulate the advantages and imperatives for sharing learning resources using evidence from the UK and elsewhere.
- Options Review of Ways Institutional & Subject Repositories can Productively Interact
30 Nov 2008This report was commissioned by JISC to produce a set of practical recommendations for steps that can be taken to improve the interactions between institutional and subject repositories in the UK....
- Identifying the Benefits of Curating & Sharing Research Data
30 Nov 2008It is becoming increasingly clear that effective and efficient management and reuse of research data will be a key component in the UK knowledge economy in years to come, essential for the efficient...
- Comparative Study of International Approaches to Enabling the Sharing of Research Data
30 Nov 2008JISC has commissioned this study to survey the different national agendas that are addressing variant infrastructure models, to inform developments within the UK and for facilitating an...
- Preservation of Web Resources Handbook
31 Oct 2008One of the goals of the Preservation of Web Resources Handbook is to make current trends in digital preservation meaningful and relevant to information professionals with the day-to-day...
- Digital Preservation Policies Study
30 Oct 2008A major business driver in all universities and colleges over the past decade has been harnessing digital content and electronic services and the undoubted benefits in terms of flexibility and...
- MetaTools - Investigating Metadata Generation Tools
30 Oct 2008Automatic metadata generation has sometimes been posited as a solution to the ‘metadata bottleneck’ that repositories and portals are facing as they struggle to provide resource discovery metadata...
- Submission, preservation & exposure of Chemistry teaching & research data from theses
30 Sep 2008The aim of this project was to investigate the needs of the academic chemistry research community with respect to how data associated with theses may best be managed and to facilitate routine and...
- Enterprise architectures: Introduction (version 1)
15 Sep 2008Enterprise Architecture (EA) is about enabling organisations to adapt to change by defining, in a generic way, how their business processes work in tandem with their Information and Communications...
- Repository interface for overlaid journal archives
10 Sep 2008This project worked with the Astrophysics community to investigate aspects of overlay journals. For the purposes of the project, an overlay journal was defined as a quality-assured journal whose...
- Low-Cost OpenURL Resolver Scoping Study
03 Jul 2008This scoping study investigates whether comprehensive deployment of OpenURL resolvers within UK Higher Education and larger Further Education Institutions is feasible and desirable.
- Image Bank: Visual Arts Case Study
30 Jun 2008The aim of this case study was to investigate the potential for aggregating digital image collections in the visual arts from across the education, museum and commercial sectors, for use within the...
- Image Bank: Geoscience Case Study
30 May 2008The use of digital images in a Geoscience Unit of an undergraduate BEng Petroleum Engineering Course.
- Library Management Systems: Investing Wisely in a Period of Disruptive Change
14 Apr 2008JISC and SCONUL recently commissioned a study to survey the Library Management Systems (LMS) landscape in the UK with particular reference to higher education. This briefing paper is an abbreviated...
- Digital Repositories and Archives Inventory
01 Jan 2008There has been a clearly articulated need for a 'one stop shop' for information discovery across different digital collections. The catalogue of resources created during the Digital Repositories and...
- The JISC year 2006-2007: An introduction to the Online Annual Review
03 Dec 2007The JISC Annual Review is at: www.jisc.ac.uk/annualreview07
This leaflet is an introduction to the online JISC Annual Review 2006–2007
For an overview of JISC’s activities during the last year...
- Image Bank: Engineering Case Study
06 Nov 2007The Community Led Image Collections report made recommendations for image collections to enable sharing of resources and metadata within the community. On the basis of the recommendations, this study...
- Image Bank: Archaeology Case Study
30 Sep 2007This case study reports on research into the uses, current and future, of digital images in teaching in archaeology and related disciplines.