- Effective Assessment in a Digital Age
06 Sep 2010Effective Assessment in a Digital Age draws on recent JISC reports and case studies depicting different contexts and modes of learning to explore the relationship between technology-enabled...
- Digital Content Quarterly issue 3
22 Jul 2010In this issue, we consider how organisations can take a ‘sharper, smarter, stronger’ view of their sustainability strategies and business models. Paul Lima from the Canadian Heritage Information...
- Scholarly digital use and information-seeking behaviour in business and economics: An evidence-based study
30 Jun 2010The report covers the digital usage and information seeking behaviour of tens of thousands of business/economics/management students, researchers and academic staff. The intention was to inform and...
- Improving the resource discovery experience: Executive overview
30 Jun 2010This strategic overview covers key findings and recommendations from several JISC-funded reports on user behaviour in resource discovery.
- Open Access for UK Research - JISC’s contributions
07 Jun 2010JISC has been at the forefront of promoting the open agenda for over a decade. This anthology gathers together its recent studies and work in Open Access.
- Digital resources for Islamic Studies
20 May 2010JISC’s innovative digitisation programme is opening up access to a wide range of rare and important Arabic manuscripts and Islamic Studies resources.
- Digital Content Quarterly 2
04 May 2010The theme for this issue is a shift in the way that the public sector thinks about digital content provision, from content management to content liberation.
- Guide to the Strategic Content Alliance: Building bridges to digital content
12 Apr 2010JISC believes that to realise the full potential of the web through access to a wide range of unique and valuable learning and research materials, digital content needs to be made available to all,...
- Capturing the power of the crowd and the challenge of community collections
12 Apr 2010Imagine you have a problem. A problem too complex, too time-consuming or too diverse to allow you or a small group of your colleagues to successfully answer it by yourselves.
- How to build a case for university policies and practices in support of Open Access
25 Feb 2010Open Access, widely adopted, can save universities money, increase the efficiency of their research operations, enable them to share research outputs more effectively and provide greater visibility...
- 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,...
- Sustaining digital resources: An on-the-ground view of projects today
01 Nov 2009The past decade has witnessed a rush to create digital content in the not-for-profit sector, as organisations from a wide range of communities — from cultural heritage, to health care, to education...
- Introduction to the SCA IPR and licensing toolkit for Senior Managers
31 Oct 2009For public bodies, understanding the implications and roles of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and licensing in their capacity as a provider, aggregator and/or publisher of digital content is...
- Introduction to the SCA IPR & licensing toolkit for Archivists, Librarians, Curators & Digital Project Leaders
31 Oct 2009For public bodies, understanding the implications and roles of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and licensing in their capacity as a provider, aggregator and/or publisher of digital content is...
- Sustaining digital resources for University Librarians
30 Oct 2009This briefing paper will help university librarians understand the key factors that influence the sustainability of library-based digital projects, and highlights the relevant examples from the set...
- Sustaining digital resources for leaders of projects with scholarly content
30 Oct 2009Those who manage digital resources face a significant challenge: finding the resources to support their project and help it thrive. With the support of the UK Strategic Content Alliance and JISC and...
- Sustaining digital resources for Curators, Archivists, and Librarians
30 Oct 2009For museums, archives, libraries and other cultural heritage institutions, developing financial support for the digital resources they create is very important. With the support of the UK Strategic...
- Open Access for UK research: JISC’s contributions - Summary of achievements
19 Oct 2009Open Access enhances scholarly communication by making the results of publicly funded research available to all. JISC has been at the forefront of the Open Access debate from the very beginning;...
- Enhancing learning through technology
12 Oct 2009A guide to resources provided by the Academy and JISC Collaboration Network
- Enriching digital resources
01 Oct 2009Isaac Newton on YouTube, controversial maps of Sudan, Richard II’s cookbook and historic Navy logbooks helping scientists to address the challenges of climate change are just a few of the treasures...
- Responding to Learners Pack
07 Sep 2009This resource pack synthesises the outcomes from the Learner Experiences of e-Learning theme of the JISC e-Learning Programme which funded a total of ten projects from 2005 to 2009, and had the...
- Managing Curriculum Change
07 Sep 2009A new publication, Managing Curriculum Change, introduces two major JISC programmes of research commencing in 2008 that investigate how the use of technology can help make curriculum design processes...
- The JISC Digitisation Programme 2009
08 Jul 2009Through the pioneering digitisation projects featured in this brochure, JISC is rapidly transforming the education and research landscape in the UK by realising the enormous potential of online...
- Effective Practice in a Digital Age
30 Jun 2009Effective Practice in a Digital Age outlines for a relatively inexperienced audience how technology can assist them in meeting everyday challenges, and support them in taking the next steps towards...
- On building a new market for culture: Virtue and necessity in a screen-based economy
30 Jun 2009In 2008, the Strategic Content Alliance commissioned Intelligent Television to prepare this report on new business opportunities to support commercial and educational institutions putting their...
- SCA guide to researching audiences
01 Apr 2009This guide sets out the basic principles of audience research. These can be followed regardless of the type of service or audience, and will help you to conduct audience research more effectively...
- SCA Intellectual Property Rights toolkit
31 Mar 2009This essential toolkit, provides resources that staff working with digital content can use to help them deal with IPR and licensing issues which might arise.
- Case studies mapping the flows of content, value and rights across the public sector
31 Mar 2009This report is an analysis of 7 case studies of publicly funded e-content initiatives, which demonstrate the flow of content, value and rights across the respective seven representatives of the...
- 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...
- JISC Digitisation Programme: An Overview of Projects
16 Mar 2009JISC is changing the world of authoritative digital content through its investment in digitising material from some of the UK’s greatest collections.
Spanning centuries, disciplines and sources,...
- Modelling the Library Domain
16 Mar 2009Web 2.0 applications offer opportunities to use library resources in learning, teaching and research in new ways and across traditional boundaries. These include enabling users to integrate digital...
- Managing Sustainable ICT in FE and HE: Strategic Overview
14 Jan 2009A strategic overview of the current issues concerning the management of environmentally sustainable Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in further and higher education. This overview...
- Sustainable ICT in Further and Higher Education: SusteIT Final Report
14 Jan 2009This is the final report of the JISC-funded SusteIT project.
- 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...
- Next Generation Environments: Papers from the Users & Innovation Programme Conference 2008
15 Sep 2008The 2008 conference and the papers in this collection reflect JISC’s commitment, in partnership with the HE sector, to make best use of new and emergent technologies, including ‘Web 2.0’ social...
- Effective Practice with e-Portfolios
08 Sep 2008Effective Practice with e-Portfolios uses the outcomes of recent significant projects and examples from current practice to explore how e-portfolios can add value to personalised and reflective...
- JISC Digitisation Conference 2007 report
12 May 2008Spanning centuries, disciplines and sources, the JISC series of pioneering digitisation projects is unlocking a wealth of unique, hard-to-access material from the 16th century to the present day,...
- Sustainability and revenue models for online academic resources
01 May 2008This paper was commissioned by JISC as the first step in a 3-stage process aimed at gaining a more systematic understanding of the mechanisms for pursuing sustainability in not-for-profit projects....
- Distributed e-Learning Programme: Stories from regional pilot projects
11 Apr 2008These stories are based on a selection of regional pilot projects (completed between 2005 and 2007) that took a regional, cross-institutional and collaborative approach to supporting lifelong...
- The JISC Capital Programme: Progress to November 2007
10 Dec 2007The JISC Capital programme for HE institutions in England and Wales is now midway through. This publication provides a summary of the interest it has generated among the academic community, and gives...
- Study: The use of publicly-funded infrastructure, services, and intellectual property for BCE
02 Oct 2007As the UK, in line with other advanced economies, increasingly moves from a resource-based to a knowledge-based economy UK government and EU policy has increasingly recognised knowledge and...
- In Their Own Words
03 Sep 2007This publication synthesises key findings from the the JISC Learner Experiences studies, drawing together themes from the Phase 1 reports and the five Learner Voice video case studies. Offering a...
- Effective practice with e-assessment
13 Mar 2007The outcomes from three projects in the e-Learning Pedagogy programme have formed the basis for 'Effective Practice with e-Assessment', a case-study based overview of e-assessment in the further and...
- Digitisation Phase 2: digitisation articles
13 Mar 2007These four leaflets tell you a little more about four digitisation projects currently underway.
- Digitisation Phase 2: Brochure and Overview
06 Mar 2007The JISC Digitisation Programme is funded with a £22 million grant from the Higher Education Funding Councils for England and Wales in recognition that a series of large-scale digitisation projects...
- 19th Century Pamphlets Online scoping study
03 Jan 2007A short scoping study was undertaken in July and August 2006 to clarify some elements of a bid under the JISC Digitisation programme1 (Phase 2). This study received £6,239 in funding from the JISC...
- JISC e-Learning programme: Improving the quality of e-Learning
11 Sep 2006The e‑Learning Programme aims to identify how e‑learning can benefit learners, practitioners and educational institutions, and advise on its implementation.
- Virtual Research Environments programme: Phase 2 roadmap
09 Aug 2006JISC has recently allocated a further £2 million to continue the
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- Technical specifications: Digitisation Programme (Phase 1) projects
01 Jul 2006The JISC Digitisation Programme is made up of six pioneering projects spanning centuries, disciplines and media from previously difficult or impossible to access collections were endorsed by our...
- Federated Access Management - a roadmap
01 May 2006Technical developments and the growing need for collaborative approaches in e-learning and e-research have led JISC to devote significant funds to the implementation of the next generation access...