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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.

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...

Information Environment Programme 2009-11 The aim of this programme is to improve the capacity of the sector to manage, discover and use information resources. There is now a critical mass of digital information resources that can be used to...

Digital Repositories programme 2007-8 The Digital Repositories programme 2007-8 builds on and takes forward key outcomes from previous and parallel work, mainly the Digital Repositories programme 2005-7, and the Repositories and...

Resource Discovery Programme The JISC needs to develop ways to support seamless, flexible and comprehensive resource discovery across a well managed resource the JISC will help to support the emerging knowledge economy. This...

Towards implementation of Library 2.0 and the e-Framework This project will contribute to the JISC Libraries of the Future initiative and the implementation of the JISC Information Environment by investigating developments in Library 2.0 services, within...

SIS Landscape Study JISC funded programmes in recent years have led to an acceptance of the need for and the value of shared infrastructure services and a shared platform – the eFramework – by the UK HE sector. Some...

INteractive VIsual Search and QUery Environment The INteractive VIsual Search and QUery Environment (INVISQUE) project will develop a prototype for future interfaces that will provide learners, students and researchers with an interactive...

Usability and Contemporary User Experience in Digital Libraries This project addresses the requirement of repositories to fully engage the end users who have become less tolerant of badly design system and expect Web 2.0 experience as norms.

Publisher & Institutional Repository Usage Statistics 2 (PIRUS2) The aim of this project is to enhance the UK Information Environment by enabling publishers, repositories and other organizations to generate and share authoritative, trustworthy usage statistics for...

UKOLN UKOLN is a research organisation that aims to inform practice and influence policy in the areas of: digital libraries, information systems, bibliographic management, and web technologies.

Podcast: What is the library of the future? with Chris Batt MP3 (Duration 7:56) In this podcast Michelle Pauli talks to Chris Batt, of Chris Batt Consulting, about the Libraries of the Future debate being held at Oxford University at the beginning of April 2009....

Podcast: OCLC’s Vice President talks libraries, the future and learning MP3 (Duration 24:17) The not-for-profit Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) is the principal sponsor of JISC’s 2009 annual conference in Edinburgh. In this podcast interview OCLC’s Vice President Karen...

Podcast: Information literacy the ‘democratic right’ of every learner, say Scottish experts MP3 (Duration 12:54) Information literacy has become a key concern for many in the education sector and beyond.  In this Podcast interview John Crawford and Christine Irving of the Scottish Information...

Podcast: A self-confessed geek on JISC's 'Developer Happiness' event MP3 (Duration 12:50) In this podcast Kerry O'Neill talks, via Skype, to digital libraries and e-learning Programme Manager David Flanders who speaks about the benefits of Web 2.0 technologies, as well as...

Podcast 77: Oxford University and Harvard University talk the future of libraries MP3 (Duration 12:28) In this podcast Michelle Pauli speaks with Sarah Thomas (The Bodleian’s Librarian and Director of Oxford University Library Services) & Professor Robert Darnton (Director of the...

Safir Project Plan Word document The University of York has a strategy to establish an Information Environment within which there will be interoperable repositories for research data and resources, learning objects and published...

Towards the academic library of the future PDF document JISC Conference 09: This session will introduce some of the issues to be explored by the collaborative Horizon Scan initiative to chart the strategic future of libraries and will elicit the views of...

Transitions in Scholarly Communications – a portfolio of research projects PDF document The scholarly communications landscape has been transformed over the past few years, in the UK and across the world. Technological change has brought – and continues to bring – profound changes in...

Names Phase One Final Report PDF document

TRSS Final Report PDF document