Committees: JISC Integrated Information Environment committee
Themes: Information environment
http://www.iesr.ac.uk
The Information Environment Service Registry
(IESR) has been developed to provide a registry of information about
electronic resources that are of value to teachers, researchers and
learners. The IESR project is part of JISC's Shared
Infrastructure Services programme.
The aim is to create a reliable source of information that other
applications, such as portals, can freely access through machine-to-machine
protocols to help their end users discover resources of assistance to them.
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all of the JISC services websites
The IESR contains information about the resources themselves, technical
details about how to access the resources, and contact details for the
resource providers. For resource providers the IESR will hold a master
description of their electronic resources, to which other potential users
of the resources may be directed.
What we can do for
you
A large amount of IESR’s work takes place at machine-to-machine level i.e.
the user is not always aware it is working. It enables a user to be
automatically directed to relevant and appropriate resources when searching
in the JISC information
environment.
Its focus is on the producers of electronic resources. It aims to
encourage them to register their resources in the registry so they can be
easily discovered by users. The data in the IESR provides a
'master copy' of information about resources. This information
includes a description of the resource itself, which can be adapted for
local use if necessary. The technical details will give you all the
information needed to set up direct access to a service, for example
through Z39.50 or OAI-PMH. If
your resource is included, more people will become aware of it, leading to
increased usage.
Read information on how to register your collection with IESR.
