Collaboration
We invest in a small number of partnerships and collaborate in a range of initiatives to:
- leverage influence on national policy and standards
- promote JISC’s provision and expertise
- connect activities of those promoting the world-class UK education and research
- promote good practice and understanding of digital technologies in education and research
Partnerships
JISC’s partners are publicly funded organisations with a national remit to support digital technologies for education and research.
Current partners include:
JISC and the Association for Learning Technology are closely aligned in a commitment to exploit the potential of digital technologies across the education and research communities. As partners, we focus on outreach to learning technology experts, encouraging colleagues and members alike to offer support and expertise to a range of funded activities.
The British Library and JISC have worked in partnership since 2005, seeking to promote excellence in the creation, access and use of digital resources.
This is a strategically significant relationship for the partners, which delivers considerable value to the higher education sector.
Partners since 2005, we collaborate to exploit the potential of digital technologies for UK higher education. Together we lead and contribute to a range of activities, including:
As partners, the Leadership Foundation and JISC recognise that higher education institutions are increasingly dependent on technology to deliver their core business.
Technology provides significant solutions, opportunities and considerable risks. We collaborate to ensure that institutional leadership and senior management develop a greater understanding of the potential of digital technologies to drive institutional change and improvement.
This partnership promotes a vision of integrated knowledge resources that supports world class research, learning and teaching. Recent activities include:
Based in the Netherlands, SURFfoundation have a strong reputation and a remit similar to JISC; to explore, exploit and promote the use of digital technologies in higher education and research.
As partners, we focus our efforts to contribute to European and international policy developments and debate.
JISC and UCAS partner to support of student progression into further and higher education through the practical, innovative and inspiring use of digital technologies. As partners we share open standards and promote open systems. Together we seek to inform policy developments.
We work with UCISA, a leading membership organisation to help institutions improve the efficiency, effectiveness and quality of:
- environmentally sustainable computing.
- emergent technologies.
- institutional strategies and information technology governance.
- institutional business process.
- organisational development, specifically in the use of information and digital technologies.
- enterprise-wide information technology infrastructures.
Initiatives
JISC funds and co-ordinates activities with an impressive range of funders and national organisations to focus our investments, progress agendas and inform policy development on behalf of the education and research sectors. Here’s a quick introduction to some of the JISC funded initiatives:
Led by JISC and Research Libraries UK, the Discovery initiative seeks to make resources more discoverable both by people and machines. To ‘make our data work harder’, finding new ways to benefit researchers, teachers, and managers of information within libraries, archives and museums.
This European initiative promotes the use and development of digital technologies infrastructure for higher education and research. The partners of Knowledge Exchange partners are committed to the vision of a layer of scholarly and scientific content openly available on the Internet.
In reality, this means creating the policy conditions, aligning strategies and developing the foundations for the European digital infrastructure, by bringing together leading thinkers and experts to advise funding organisations.
Together with JISC, the funding partners are Denmark’s Electronic Research Library (DEFF), the German Research Foundation (DFG) and SURFfoundation in the Netherlands.
This group promotes effective co-ordination of public and private sector organisations to strengthen the move towards open access within higher education and research. The group seeks to increase the rate at which the outputs from UK research are available on open access terms.
The Strategic Content Alliance (the Alliance) works across the public sector to reduce the barriers that currently inhibit access, use and re-use of digital content and to build a common information environment where users of publicly funded content can gain best value from the investment that has been made.
JISC is taking forward the Alliance work in collaboration with a set of key organisations across the public sector, these are: the British Library; the BBC; the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) and the Wellcome Library.
A key target for the Alliance has been to develop a framework of best practice to aid, inform and provide guidance to all those involved in the digital lifecycle from creation to curation, from those at a strategic and policy-making level to those at the coal face. The Alliance has published a suite of products covering the different elements of its work, from audience research to intellectual property rights.