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Learning and teaching innovation grants JISC is supporting, via the LTIG programme, one year projects and activities that fit with the vision, outcomes and principles of the JISC e-Learning programme and support innovative approaches to...

e-Learning programme The JISC e-learning programme enables the development and effective use of digital technologies to support learning and teaching in universities and colleges, so that staff benefit from e-learning...

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.

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...

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...

British newspapers 1620-1900 1.1 million pages are being digitised from 18th and 19th century news, building on previous projects to enable access to a virtual library containing some 4 million digitised pages of important...

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...

Technology and Standards Watch (TechWatch) TechWatch anticipates developments in information and communication technologies that might have high impact on the core business of Further and Higher Education in five to ten years' time.

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.

OSS Watch OSS Watch (open source software advisory service promotes awareness and understanding of the legal, social, technical and economic issues that arise when educational institutions engage with free and...

Unlock Unlock the hidden potential in your resources with this set of web services including placename extraction from text, geographic search, and crosswalking between different types of location reference.

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...

Podcast: Open source – an open and shut case? MP3 (Duration: 16.00) Procuring and developing IT systems which can meet the needs of colleges and universities requires a full consideration of open source software. So says OSS Watch manager Ross...

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: Uncovering the social and economic benefits of open access MP3 (Duration: 28.00) Professor John Houghton's work to explore the social and economic impact of open access has had a significant impact on debates in his native Australia. Currently working for JISC...

Podcast: How JISC opens up resources for education MP3 (Duration 12:57) In this podcast Kerry O’Neill talks with e-learning Programme Manager David Kernohan about what JISC is doing in the Open Educational Resources (OER) arena. Interviewer            ...

Deposit Plait Plan PDF document One of the main issues affecting institutional repositories today is the lack of content, and one of the common reasons expressed by academic staff is the resentment of re-keying data. The concept...

Digital Repositories and Archives Inventory Project - Final Report Word document The Digital Repositories and Archives Inventory (DRAI) Project aimed to provide a comprehensive snapshot of digital resource provision in the UK and to examine the technical infrastructure and...

A Digital Library of Core e-Resources on Ireland project plan PDF document This project, over a period of two years, will digitise and make available in a sustainable way at least 100 journal titles, 205 monographs and 2,500 pages of manuscript all relating to Irish...

Digitisation of the London Broadcasting Company/Independent Radio News Archive project plan PDF document Bournemouth University aims to digitise the recordings relating to news and current affairs from the LBC/IRN archive, and to create a complete on line searchable database of the catalogue including...

British Newspapers Map 1800-1900 PDF document Read all about Britain and the world from the Industrial Revolution to the Boxer Rebellion. This will deliver up to 2 million pages, totalling approximately 10 billion words of British newspapers...