JISC

A sample of recent press coverage on JISC and its services in 2012. For further information, contact press@jisc.ac.uk

January 2012

Cloud

• Cloud guarantees bright outlook in The Guardian and in print 11.1.2012
• Eduserv launches Cloud for colleges in Public Technology 10.1.2012 and Techworld 11.1.2012

Digital Literacies

• Summary of technologies in use in the JISC in Sheila MacNeill blog 31.1.2012

Digitisation and preservation

• York Church records available online on BBC online 30.12.2011
• Digital humanities: Living books des livres numeriques en acces libre (in French) in IDBoox 16.12.2011
• The digital humanities surround you in Digitisation programme blog 10.1.2012 and Digital research for humanities 16.1.2012
• BT corporate archive to be put online in BBC History Magazine, IT Wire, DCS Europe, History Today, Teleread, Business Archive Scotland, Wired-Gov.net, UK National Archives, ZD.net, PR-GB newsite 20.1.2012
• Thatcher's Britain revealed in Mass Observation Archive in BBC News 12.1.2012

Legal and ethical

• New guidance from the Law Society on Social Media in JISC Legal 9.1.2012

Libraries

• The constant innovator: the academic library as a model of change management by Ben Showers in Library Journal 9.1.2012
• CRL, CRKN and JISC form partnership in Centre for Research Libraries 23.1.2012

Partnerships

• 15 things you need to know about partnering with the private sector in Guardian HE Network, 31.1.2012

Research

• Eight international research funders announce the winners of the 2011 digging into data challenge in Metro London, San Fransisco Chronicle, Politics.co.uk, TMC Net education technology, EuroInvestor.co.uk, Marketwatch, EIN News, SmartGrid, Green Technology World, Scientific Computing 3.1.2012
• Migration and mobility (digging into data project) in Loughborough 20.1.2012
• Geospatial data gathering bears fruit by Matthew Dovey in Research Information 11.1.2012
• University of Western Ontario ground zero for mummy studies in Toronto Sun 3.1.2012
• In conversation with Dawn Wood - Organic evaluation in JISC curriculum design and delivery 9.1.2012

Teaching and learning

• Resurrect computer science but don't kill off ICT (Doug Belshaw blog post) in Guardian HE Network 24.1.2012
• Talk point: what will the impact of Apple's iBooks 2 be on education? (JISC comments from Amber Thomas and others) in Guardian HE Network 26.1.2012

 
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