Topic: Access & Identity

Top 5 tips for improving your e-Safety

Advantages offered by the internet and current technologies are widely recognised and actively adopted in education.  Students, for example, will often choose and be expected to use their own devices to share ideas, problem solve and carry out research.  Despite … Read more

Manage your Freedom of Information requests

The amount of requests received by universities and colleges under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, Data Protection Act and Environmental Information Regulations continues to increase year on year. And so, as a consequence, do the costs and time associated with … Read more

“Knowledge is the currency of the new economy” where research is “intelligently open”

A flow of policy reports focusing on research and access to the outputs of research appeared over the past month.  Today the European Commission published two communications that respond to the way the “internet has fundamentally changed the world of … Read more

Where the open things are

The issue of making Open Access books discoverable was discussed in nearly all of our focus groups that we held earlier this year as part of the OAPEN-UK project. It’s not just about putting the PDF onto a platform and … Read more

Maximising your online event experience

With just one week to go before the JISC11 conference in Liverpool, the final preparations are in full swing. We are working hard to ensure those of you planning to follow the conference online have as full and interactive an … Read more

Maximising your event amplification

Those of you unable to come and see us at the JISC11 conference in Liverpool next week will no doubt be keeping one eye on what is happening throughout the day with the help of your laptop, phone or tablet. … Read more

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