Committees: JISC Content Services committee, JISC Integrated Information Environment committee
Themes: Access management, Information environment, e-Resources, e-Learning, e-Research
http://www.mimas.ac.uk/
Mimas is a national data centre based at The University of Manchester and
supported by JISC and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Mimas provides the UK further, higher education and research community with
networked access to key data and information resources to support teaching,
learning and research across a wide range of disciplines.
What we can do for you
Search for content on
all of the JISC services websites Mimas is a national data
centre providing online access to bibliographic reference material,
electronic journals, socio-economic, spatial and scientific data, quality
internet resources, and learning materials.
Members of the UK further education, higher education and research
community are entitled to access these services free of charge as
end-users, although institutional subscription and end-user registration
are required for some services.
Mimas bibliographic reference services
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Archives Hub FREE access to
descriptions of archive collections held in universities and colleges
throughout the United Kingdom. More information.
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Copac FREE access to the merged
catalogues of 24 major university research libraries plus the British
Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the National Library of
Wales/Llyfrgell Genedl. More information.
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ISI Web of Knowledge Service for
Education The platform by which users can access Thomson Scientific
products subscribed to by an individual institution. More information.
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Zetoc The British Library’s
electronic table of contents, providing access to information on the
latest research articles and papers, plus an email alerting service. More information.
Mimas electronic journal services
Socio-economic, scientific and spatial resources
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Census Data The Census
Dissemination Unit (CDU) at Mimas is funded by the ESRC and JISC to
provide access (using Casweb) to the Standard Area Statistics and related
geographical datasets from the 1971, 1981, 1991 and the 2001 Censuses. More information.
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ESDS International As a
specialist data service of the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS),
ESDS International led by Mimas in partnership with the UK Data Archive
provides UK academics with free access to and support for regularly
updated, key international datasets. More information.
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CrossFire The chemical
information system containing the CrossFire Beilstein Database for
organic chemistry and the CrossFire Gmelin Database - for inorganic and
organometallic chemistry. More information.
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Satellite Image Data
Service Web-based access to satellite imagery and mosaics of Landsat
4, 5 & 7 (Thematic Mapper imagery), SPOT (for land use mapping and
digital terrain modelling), ERS 1 & 2 and ENVISAT (radar data which
can be applied to assess land cover, subsidence and geomorhphology. A
high resolution Digital Elevation Model for the whole of the British
Isles is available and georeferenced SRTM data. Learning materials
include the new Image Processing for Remote Sensing Course. More information.
Internet resources
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Intute A free online service
providing access to the very best web resources for education and
research. More
information.
Learning and Teaching
Mimas hosts several services that provide access to learning materials for
students and staff. These resources also provide teachers with high quality
resources that they can incorporate into their teaching.
Jorum A service in development, Jorum
is run jointly with EDINA. A free
on-line repository service for teaching and support staff helping to build
a community for the sharing reuse and re-purposing of learning and teaching
materials.
Hairdressing Training A
web-based collection of study guides covering much of the hairdressing NVQ
curriculum level 2.
Service in development
IESR The JISC Information Environment
Service Registry (IESR) is a machine-readable registry of electronic
resources. The aim of the IESR is to make it easier for other applications
to discover and use materials which will help their users’ learning,
teaching and research. More information.
Support for users
The Mimas website provides information
about training, news and events, overviews of the services, and links to
the websites of each individual Mimas service.
Free introductory training courses on Mimas services are regularly held in
Manchester and London. All staff and students are welcome to register for
these.
Many services offer various guides, leaflets and posters, available from
the service websites.
Further help and advice on all matters concerning the service may be
obtained by contacting the Mimas help desk,
info@mimas.ac.uk, 0161-275 6109.
Publications
Focus on Mimas, the quarterly
newsletter
Introductory leaflets and other
documentation
JISCMail list for Mimas news reports and discussion:
mimas@jiscmail.ac.uk
Specific contacts