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The University for the Creative Arts (UCA) has been awarded funding from Jisc to digitise the archive of celebrated British designer Zandra Rhodes CBE.

Jisc is supporting universities and colleges to create a business case for an integrated IT strategy to help them make better investment decisions.

David Puttnam, Lord Puttnam of Queensgate, will consider the potential impact of a major, positive disruption to the way the world approaches learning and teaching at the Jisc online e-learning conference on 22-25 November 2011.

Safe cloud storage to help avoid the risks of lost or stolen data is now on offer to help three UK final year undergraduate and master's students run their research projects.

The UK is to participate in a global experiment, based on the social media technology behind Twitter and Facebook, to find out how the social activity around online educational content can be captured and fed back to users, creators and publishers.

Martyn Harrow, Director of Information Services at Cardiff University, has been appointed as Head of Jisc for a fixed term of 9-18 months from 1 February 2012.

During Jisc's transition period to move the organisation towards a new legal entity, a Shadow Board has been formed to help manage the process.

An online training course to help disseminate good practice in research data management developed at the University of Edinburgh is now free to use by PhD students, early career researchers and digital data users at all UK universities.

The academic monograph is under threat. Increased costs and lower print runs are impacting on the principle means by which researchers share their knowledge and disseminate their findings.

Open access week 2011 is full of inspiration on the benefits of free immediate access to the results of scholarly research. Now more than 30 compelling stories have been collected together from across Europe showcasing the transformative effects of open access.