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OSS Watch, Jisc's open source software advisory service, today announced the launch of a public wiki. 

The Jisc model licence is applied to all Jisc agreements for access and use of online resources and contains more favourable provisions than any standard commercial licence. Jisc negotiates such licences with publishers on behalf of the UK funding bodies for further and higher education.

The National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) has announced the appointment
of Professor Jun'ichi Tsujii as its new Director. Professor Tsujii is
Professor of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing at

‘E-mail – love it or loathe it, there is no escaping it,’ writes Jisc’s Electronic Records Manager Steve Bailey in the lead article in the Times Higher’s e-supplement published today.

Jisc is a sponsor of the fourth CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI4), currently taking place in Geneva, writes Neil Jacobs, Jisc’s Digital Repositories programme manager, who is attending the conference.

Jisc’s activities in the areas of networks, management of data, repositories and the e-Framework are highlighted in the ICT supplement of this week’s Times Higher, published today.

Supporting the seamless transition for students between educational institutions and across further and higher education is an important requirement for lifelong learning and the goal of a range of regional and national initiatives, including the Jisc-funded MLEs for Lifelong Learning programme.

18th October, 2005. Jisc today announced the winners of funding under the third round of its Open Access programme under which publishers are awarded seed money to explore open access models of publishing.

The e-Learning and Pedagogy Experts Group has pioneered the use of online conferencing software in a bid to open up discussion around the current and future work of the e-Learning and Pedagogy and Innovation strands of the Jisc e-Learning Programme.  

The Common Information
Environment (CIE) today published the results of a study into the
applicability of the international Creative Commons licenses to a range of
UK public sector resources.