Imagine Google without a search box
If you are looking for audiovisual content it is hard to know where to start. Google can search vast amounts but there is a whole section on the web that is only available to education, and Google by itself is not enough for scholarly use. When we started creating a search environment to look at multiple databases in one we... >>
Open access and the transparency of research
It has been a busy week for research. The UK Research Councils (RCUK) and HEFCE announced plans to work together on open access. Jisc’s Executive Secretary, Dr Malcolm Read, gave oral evidence to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Inquiry into peer review, alongside Mark Patterson from the Public Library of Science, (a leading open access publisher) and... >>
The Impact Factor
“We are historians, we’ve never studied people who answer back”. This is how a team member from the Old Bailey Online, a successful resource which provides access to nearly 200,000 trials of London’s central court 1674-1913, summed up the challenge they faced when trying to measure the impact of their digital resource on research, teaching and learning. This statement is... >>
Manage your research information - spend more time on research
The UK keeps a huge amount of information about research. From funding applications to datasets, from HESA and REF reporting to publications lists. People and institutions across the sector need to manage and share this information at every level. The challenge, however, is that this information is often stored in different systems and formats, some commercial or proprietary and some... >>
Digital resources made possible by Jisc
The UK is a knowledge economy and as the coalition government looks to also to make it a digital one - how is Jisc helping to share the UK’s knowledge and our resources online? In my role at Jisc I look after our content programme which brings scholarly collections into the digital age - taking journals, newspapers, manuscripts, photographs and... >>
Introducing the Jisc Blog
I have only been something approximating a regular blogger for about three years now and so I rather casually thought that blogging must be, oh, perhaps six or seven years old. But the term ‘weblog’ seems to have been coined by Jorn Barger at the end of 1997 and the noun and verb ‘blog’ surfaced in 1999 by Peter Merholz... >>
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