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...

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.

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...

Google Generation The University College London (UCL) CIBER group will be conducting a study for the JISC and the British Library to investigate how the Google generation searches for information and the implications...

Library Management Systems Horizon Scan Library Management Systems Study - An evaluation and horizon scan of the current library management systems and related systems landscape for UK Higher Education

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...

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...

York Digital Library – Integration for the Next Generation This project will implement and develop a number of technologies to enhance and embed repositories into the information infrastructure of the University of York.

JISC RSCs (Regional Support Centres) The 13 JISC RSCs provide a comprehensive, regionally-based support service for the use of networked learning technologies and resources for FE Colleges, small HE Colleges and other local educational...

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.

JANET JANET(UK) manages the operation and development of JANET, the UK's education and research network, on behalf of JISC for the UK Further and Higher Education Funding Councils.

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.

EDINA EDINA is a JISC-funded national data centre offering the UK tertiary education and research community networked access to a library of data, information and research resources.

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: 'The Google Generation' – myth or reality? MP3 (Duration: 22.04) A new report, commissioned by JISC and The British Library, counters the common assumption that the 'Google Generation' - young people born or brought up in the internet age - is...

Podcast: Digitisation is opening library doors to the whole world, says SCONUL's secretary MP3 (Duration: 9.06) The library of the future is a digital one, says Toby Bainton, and digitisation is at the forefront of ensuring that important scholarly resources are made more widely available and...

Podcast: The open access argument is won, says leading advocate MP3 (Duration: 11.43) A petition organised by JISC, European partners and SPARC Europe attracted nearly 25,000 signatures in 2007, including a number of Nobel Prize winners, as well as more than 800...

Podcast: The Strategic Content Alliance with Emma Beer MP3 (Duration: 05.35) The Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) is a three year JISC-funded initiative committed to delivering a co-ordinated framework of principles and best practice for the provision of...

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.

Blooming CQF Project plan PDF document The project will be carried out through a partnership of Scottish Further Education Unit (SFEU), Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), the Scottish FE Librarians Community of Practice, eCom...

Pirus Proiect Plan PDF document The aim of this project is to develop COUNTER-compliant usage reports at the individual article level that can be implemented by any entity (publisher, aggregator, IR, etc.,) that hosts online...

JISC User Requirement Study for a Moving Pictures and Sound Portal PDF document This study is a user requirements investigation for a moving pictures and sound (time-based media) portal for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The study assesses what users (i.e....

HCI Design Foundation Study PDF document The objectives of the study were to: Identify how HCI Design Principles could assist the relevant users and other stakeholders; Analyse existing HCI design principles for their applicability to JISC...