JISC

You can now search through all collections either digitised or licenced via JISC funding.

  

Aims of the Content and Digitisation programme

Bringing collections out of the dark

• Enabling the use of difficult to access physical collections for the benefit of teaching, learning and research.

• Allowing for universities to exploit the full richness of their special collections, whilst easing the management of physical collections, helping preserve precious material and easing the pressures on space.

Meeting and advancing research needs

• Building a critical mass of content, thus providing for new methodologies, uncovering previously hidden evidence and opening up new areas of research.

• Helping meet teaching needs by using digital resources for innovative pedagogies, the gap between teaching and research, and inspiring teaching and learning in different spaces and scenarios.

Stimulating the economy, underpinning competitiveness and developing skills

• Establishing new business models for digital content and developing the appropriate skills in creating, describing, delivering and marketing digital content for HE and beyond.

• Working with the private sector to achieve commercial success and public good, reducing environmental impact, and opening up public sector content for re-use.

Reaching out and building communities

• Using innovative techniques and technologies, such as crowdsourcing, to create new forms of social inclusion and help create economically sustainable digitisation.

• Harnessing communities of users within scholarly groups and from the broader public to allow for the two-way transfer of knowledge and help address concerns over the sustainability and usability of digital content.

As well as the creation of 'transformational content', the Content and Digitisation programme works to improve digital literacy and build skills around the creation and consumption of these resources. At the same time, embedding and sustaining these resources is a challenge that the programme constantly confronts and funds a range of projects to explore these areas.

Yearly highlights

Useful documents

• JISC Collections open educational user licence from CASPER project (Word)