JISC

Digitisation and e-Content JISC is changing the world of authoritative e-resources through its investment in digitising content from some of the UK’s greatest collections.

e-Content programme 2009-11 With an investment of £2.1 million JISC has funded this new programme of work which will not only create more digital content, but also to help sustain and deliver existing content in a more...

Enriching Digital Resources 2008-09 Enriching Digital Resources is a strand of the Digitisation Programme. Totalling an investment of just under £2 million, it is aimed at developing the range and quality of digital resources available...

Islamic studies programme This programme is helping researchers navigate the wealth of Islamic Studies manuscript holdings in UK collections.

International Projects Influenced by reports such as Professor Sir Gareth Roberts’ International Partnerships of Research Excellence , and the 2009 Higher Education and Collaboration in Global Context: Building a Global...

British Library 19th-century newspapers This project will revolutionise scholarly research bringing richer results with precision and speed at the click of a mouse.

First World War poetry digital archive Building on the success of Oxford's Wilfred Owen archive, this multimedia digital archive will contain images, text, audio and video of primary material from five other major British poets of the...

Pre-Raphaelite resource site This project will create a unique research source for the study of the Pre-Raphaelites and British 19th-century art. It will be available open access to all users via the Birmingham Museums and Art...

UK Colonial Registers & Royal Navy logbooks: Making the past available for the future This project plans to use late 18th to early 20th century archive material to enhance the global coverage of daily to sub-daily weather observations. These are essential for current research that...

Darwin's Library Providing online access to Charles Darwin’s richly annotated personal library.

JISC Collections JISC Collections negotiates with publishers of online resources and with owners of digital content, on behalf of further and higher education, including journals, e-books, geospatial material,...

BUFVC (British Universities Film & Video Council) The BUFVC (British Universities Film & Video Council) is a representative body which promotes the production, study and use of film and related media in higher and further education and research.

JISC Digital Media JISC Digital Media provides advice and guidance on the creation and use of digital media collections in learning, teaching and research. JISC Digital Media aims to promote and develop good practice...

Podcast: The JISC Digitisation Programme - five centuries of unique resources MP3 (Duration: 5.45) The £22m JISC digitisation programme is making available a wide range of vital scholarly resources to UK education and research. One of its programme managers is Alastair Dunning...

Podcast - Ithaka’s Kevin Guthrie gives the US perspective on digitisation MP3 (Duration: 16.20) Kevin Guthrie is president of the US-based Ithaka, an organisation which supports innovation in the use of ICT, providing shared services and national initiatives for the benefit of...

Podcast: Public sector is crucial to national digitisation efforts, says MLA’s Chris Batt MP3 (Duration: 11.32) Chris Batt is the Chief Executive of the Museum Libraries and Archives Council, a key partner of JISC’s in the Strategic Content Alliance, a cross-sectoral body looking to widen...

Podcast: How digitisation can bring a nation's heritage to the desktops of all MP3 (Duration: 8.21) One of the projects in JISC's digitisation programme, the Welsh Journals project is set to add to a growing body of materials dedicated to Welsh, culture, history and language. In...

Podcast: Why is Google showing us the way forward in digitisation? asks senior UK librarian MP3 (Duration: 12.02) A recent European digitisation conference explored some important challenges facing national and university libraries across the continent as they attempt to join together to...

The Serving Soldier Project Plan PDF document The project will provide a large body of original content to be used in College teaching programmes and enable its dissemination in the training of armed forces personnel through the medium of...

Welsh Ballards Project Plan PDF document The Project aims to make widely available several collections of historical printed Welsh ballads, via access to digital versions of 5,000 titles via a free website, presently only available in a few...

Enlightening Science Project Plan PDF document Our immediate goal is to make freely available online all versions of the most important scientific texts composed by Isaac Newton that were published in his lifetime. These writings, which...

VMR Project Plan PDF document The Virtual Manuscript Room (VMR) will bring together digital resources related to manuscript materials (digital images, descriptions and other metadata, transcripts) in an environment which will...

Enhancing the VADS Image Collection PDF document The VADS image collection (vads.ac.uk) has grown considerably over the eleven years of its existence. Some three hundred educational institutions, museums and individual artists have contributed...