JISC

e-Learning Frameworks and Tools programme The e-Learning Framework is a service-oriented factoring of the core services required to support e-Learning applications, portals and other user agents.

Repositories and Preservation Programme The programme is a £14m investment in Higher Education repository and digital content infrastructure. It will fund initiatives to develop the Information Environment supporting digital repositories...

Digital preservation & records management programme Supporting institutions in long-term digital asset management and preservation forms a central theme of JISC's Digital Preservation and Records Management programme.

Institutional Innovation Programme The Institutional Innovation programme represents a £13.08m investment aimed at supporting existing institutional strategies by providing solutions to institution-wide problems, based upon proven...

Managing research data The scientific process is enhanced by managing and sharing research data. Good research data management practice allows reliable verification of results and permits new and innovative research built...

Electronic records management training package Electronic records management requires staff from all levels/areas of an institution to appreciate their role/responsibilities as creators and users of electronic records.

CLADDIER Project The CLADDIER Project will build and deploy a demonstration system linking publications held in two institutional repositories (Southampton University and the CCLRC) with data holdings in the British...

Dealing with data UKOLN was asked to undertake a small-scale consultancy for the JISC to investigate the relationships between data centres and institutions which may develop data repositories. The resulting...

Evaluating Automated Subject Tools Enhancing Retrieval The purpose of the project is to test and evaluate existing tools for automated subject metadata generation to better understand what is possible, what the limitations of current solutions are, and...

Human Communication Audio-Visual Archive for University College London This project (CAVA) will establish a repository for audio-visual data on real-life human communication for spoken and signed languages, initially populated with a minimum of 600 hours of...

Information Environment Service Registry (IESR) The Information Environment Service Registry has been developed to provide a registry of information about electronic resources that are of value to teachers, researchers and learners.

Intute Intute is a free online service providing access to the very best web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists...

Archives Hub The Archives Hub provides online access to descriptions of archive collections held in universities and colleges throughout the UK.

Zetoc Zetoc provides Z39.50-compliant access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC).

UK Data Archive The UK Data Archive (UKDA) is a national resource centre that acquires, disseminates, preserves and promotes the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the United...

Podcast: Going geographical with Go-Geo! MP3 (Duration: 10.13) Go-Geo! is a portal which brings together a number of key geographically related resources. In this podcast for Inform Plus, Robin Smith, an analyst at the University of Sheffield...

Developing Records Management in Further Education - Responding to the Requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2007 PDF document As part of the JISC national programme, Supporting Institutional Records Management, a team from the Information Management Research Institute at Northumbria University was commissioned from April to...

JISC Circular 09/02 - Supporting Institutional Records Management, Theme 3, Electronic Records Management Training Package PDF document Today, in organizations, the management of records in different formats, but increasingly in electronic form, is growing in importance. This fact applies equally to higher education institutions...

Managing the Employee Record: Report to JISC PDF document The study was undertaken as part of the JISC’s Supporting Institutional Records Management Programme. Under this programme JISC provided funding for a range of pilots, studies and initiatives aimed...

Managing Primary Research Data and Records for Research in the HE Institutions PDF document The JISC funded project was undertaken by the school of informatics, Northumbria University, from May to October 2003. It studied the management of research records, comprising records of the process...

Supporting Institutional Records Management (JISC Circular 9/02): Theme 2 Project – the Model Action Plan in a Further Education Context PDF document Loughborough College is a medium-sized general further education College in North Leicestershire, with an annual turnover of £17 million in 2002-03. It shares a large campus with Loughborough...