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Are e-portfolios agents of empowerment or exclusion for disadvantaged learners? Delegates visiting the Jisc stand at the ALT-C conference in Manchester have been debating this question and leaving their thoughts on the Jisc pillar of knowledge. 

Delivering up to 143 million messages to list members in the UK and internationally, Jiscmail has been a hugely popular service, in part thanks to the team which have administered and run it since 2000.

Two newly-published reports, both commissioned by Jisc’s Scholarly Communications Group, provide further evidence for the academic and research community as it continues to debate the future of scholarly communications.

Delegates gathering at the Jisc-sponsored ALT-C (Association for
Learning Technology) 2005 conference in Manchester will today see the
launch of a new publication Innovative Practice with e-Learning
from the e-Learning and

What are digital repositories? Sheila Anderson, AHDS and Rachel Heery, UKOLN, looked into this back in February with their 'Digital Repositories Review'. The findings suggested that they are, perhaps obviously:

A Jisc agreement with Elsevier brings a major science database to the further and higher education communities.

Study on Copyright and Open Access Journals

The eighteenth century was one of the richest and most extraordinary centuries in this country’s history, one in which many of our most important institutions became established, and one in which many of the subjects and disciplines taught in our colleges and universities were first formalised a

Access to high quality information to research the early decades of
television in the UK has always been a challenge; broadcast schedules have
often been viewed as ephemera, consequently complete runs of the Radio
Times or the TVTimes are hard to find. Until the

Staff and students at further education institutions across the country have free access to highly detailed digital mapping from this month.