JISC

Digital Preservation and Asset Management This programme aims to raise awareness of digital preservation issues and will set in motion a process of integrating digital preservation and asset management into institutional strategies and...

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.

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...

Users & Innovation: Personalising Technologies Based on the needs of real end-users, the programme will identify areas where innovative user technologies and practices can increase efficiency.

19th century pamphlets online This project will provide online access to the most significant collections of 19th century pamphlets held in UK research libraries. Digitising around 30,000 paper copy pamphlets, which focus on the...

Moving Digital Images and Sound Archiving study The study has been funded to understand the preservation challenges of digital moving image and sound files, to scope the preservation requirements, and to determine archiving methodologies and...

Historic boundaries of Britain This project will create a comprehensive digital library of historic administrative boundaries for Britain through a combination of scanning historical maps and creating vector boundaries for...

The John Johnson collection: an archive of printed ephemera The John Johnson Collection is widely recognised as one of the most important collections of printed ephemera in the world and generally regarded as the most significant single collection of ephemera...

A digital library of core e-resources on Ireland The digitisation of over 70 key journals, 205 monographs and 2,500 manuscript pages from core Irish Studies collections makes this comprehensive, multi-disciplinary digital library the first point of...

JISC CETIS (JISC Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards) JISC CETIS advises Universities and Colleges on the strategic, technical and pedagogic implications of educational technology standards.

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...

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: Professor Drummond Bone of Universities UK gives his backing to JISC’s repositories work MP3 (Duration: 12.06) As President of Universities UK and Vice Chancellor of Liverpool University, Professor Drummond Bone’s thoughts on how UK education and research can maximise its impact across the...

Podcast: Peter Burnhill talks about The Depot MP3 (Duration: 9.06) All researchers and academic authors in the UK now have a repository in which to deposit their research papers under terms of open access. The Depot , a national JISC-funded...

Podcast: Promoting open access - how JISC is supporting the development of repositories MP3 (Duration: 10.17) Repositories are being established and developed across the UK to help make research papers and other resources freely available to all who want to use them. In this podcast, JISC...

JISC preservation of web resources handbook PDF document The handbook aims to provide suggestions for best practice and advice aimed at UK higher and further educational institutions, to enable the preservation of websites and web-based resources.

Developing a global standard to enable the recording, reporting and consolidation of online usage statistics for individual journal articles hosted by institutional repositories, publishers and other entities.(Final Report PDF document The aim of PIRUS (Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics) was to develop COUNTER-compliant standards and usage reports at the individual article level that can be implemented by any...

LIROLEM Final Report PDF document The primary aim of the Lirolem project was initially to build a repository capable of handling the material that was generated by the students of the Lincoln School of Architecture, with a view to...

CURVE Final Report PDF document CURVE provides a single repository for the university’s digital academic content and is used for both teaching and research objects. The policy decision to develop a single repository brought with it...

Digital Images Archiving Study PDF document A growth in digital imaging technologies has meant that a vast number of digital images are produced every year. The scholarly community has made particular use of this new content, and is now...