News Coverage 2011 : JISC

News Coverage 2011

December 2011

Cloud

Long road ahead for SMEs in government - cloud notwithstanding in PublicTechnology.net 7.12.2011
The G Cloud in Guardian Government Computing 14.12.2011

Digitisation and preservation

British Library makes 300 years of newspapers searchable online in webpronews.com 29.11.2011, Wells people 1.12.2011
Digital church records offer window to the past in ArtDaily.org 1.12.2011, University of Sheffield 30.11.2011, BBC News 30.12.2011
Locating London's past on the Today Programme BBC Radio 4 12.12.2011 (2h 49min 25sec - 2h 53min 21sec)
Cambridge University puts Isaac Newton's papers online in BBC Technology, Creative Boom, PhysOrg.com, The Register, Wired.com 12.12.2011, The Daily Mail, The Chronicle of Higher Education 13.12.2011
Living books about life in Science@UWS library 13.12.2011, Researcher's Weekly Bulletin from Manchester Metropolitan University 20.12.2011
Let's seize the digital opportunity in Museums Journal 01.12.2011

Innovation

How JISC supports innovation in education and research in Information Today Europe 2.12.2011
How to build a university mobile application: best practice and insight in Guardian HE Network 8.12.2011
Synote wins ICT Initiative of the Year in prestigious THE Awards in Webnewswire.com 4.12.2011

JISC Activity

JISC to present at international conference: Developing virtual and hybrid events for the events industry in Conference & Incentive Travel 6.12.2011

Grant winners in Times Higher Education 1.12.2011
A round up of funding still available for applicants in In touch with HE 20.12.2011

Legal and Ethical

Guidance materials issued for using medical records in The University of Bristol, Health Canal.com 5.12.2011 MedicalXpress.com 6.12.2011
What does Creative Commons mean for photography? in Wired.co.uk 15.12.2011

Libraries

Help JISC TechDis choose a voice in SMU Library blog 1.12.2011
RLUK sticks with Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Charleston Advisor 1.12.2011, Times Higher Education, PR-Canada.net 2.12.2011

Networks

Surf telecoms selects Geo Networks to support business growth in Infotech 30.11.2011
Consumerisation of IT in education: security considerations in Microsoft HE blog 7.12.2011

Open Access

Exploring open access in higher education: live chat best bits in Guardian Higher Education Network 7.12.2011

Professional development

Continuous professional development that works in FE week 2.12.2011

Social Media

Social media 'not to blame' for inciting rioters in BBC News, University of Manchester, The Berwick Advertiser, Express & Star, CIO, NetworkWorld, Health Canal, Bioscience Technology 8.12.2011, ComputerWorld 9.12.2011, ZD.net 10.12.2011
Reading the Riots Conference live blog in The Guardian 14.12.2011
Responding to the forthcoming demise of Twapperkeeper in UK web focus 11.12.2011

Student Experience

Improving access to higher education information for prospective students in The Guardian 12.12.2011
The unofficial university guide in professional security magazine 19.12.2011
Digital literacy can boost employability and improve the student experience in the Guardian 15.12.2011, Digital fingerprint 15.12.2011, Guardian Education Cribsheet 16.12.2011

November 2011

Cloud

Eduserv and JANET Brokerage join forces to bring one year of free cloud to students in IT Analysis 9.11.11
Loughborough University limbers up for IT Olympics (JANET) in Public Technology 22.11.2011

Data protection

Activity data and data protection – what am I allowed to do? in Digital infrastructure blog 17.11.2011

Digitisation and preservation

New JISC project for archive preservation in Insitutute of Education University of London 3.11.2011
JISC grant winners for digitisation in Times Higher Education 17.11.2011
JISC launches eCollections in Resource Shelf 24.11.2011
Safeguarding skeletons using 3D digitisation in Domain-B.com 28.11.2011, Bradford Telegraph & Argus 29.11.2011

Innovation

Student hackday on DevXS in The Lincolnite 14.11.2011

International coverage

Peer review in Reflexiones y irreflexiones 3.11.2011 (in Spanish)

Libraries

National knowledge service in Times Higher Education 3.11.2011

Martyn Harrow appointment

Announcement of new head of JISC in Times Higher Education 8.11.2011, Infodocket 7.11.2011, Wales Higher Education Library Forum 7.11.2011, Outsell 10.11.2011, Charles Beagrie Blog 16.11.2011

Online learning

Sarah Knight opinion piece in Public Service Review (pdf, November edition)
University of Europe in Journal of Student 7.11.2011
Increased use of remote access tools by learning institutions in Katie in the City 7.11.2011
Confusing trends in e-books in Law Librarian Blog 7.11.2011
The use of social media in Infodocket 8.11.2011, The Register 10.11.2011, Information World Review 15.11.2011

Online resources

History to Her Story in BBC Who Do You Think You Are magazine (jpeg, December edition), Keighly News 9.11.2011, BBC History magazine 21.11.2011
National virtual incubator launced in tech city in Metro 10.11.2011, Fresh Business Thinking 10.11.2011, All Media Scotland 10.11.2011
Fashion archive to be digitised in BBC online 20.11.2011, Industrial Sourcing News 21.11.2011, Surrey Comet 25.11.2011
Victorian knitting guides available online in Researcher's weekly bulletin 14.11.2011
Metalwork treasures in 3D archive in Yorkshire Post 23.11.2011
Presentation tips for Prezi in Teaching with images blog 8.11.2011

Open Access

Developments in cultural data in Open Knowledge Foundation Blog 4.11.2011
Living books about life in Little Library Blog 1.11.2011, Jacques Ranciere 2.11.2011

Research

Research sources used to develop radio content in Radio 14.11.2011
RCUK launches new system for logging research 'impact' in Times Higher Education 26.11.2011
JISC Collections and Elsevier Renew Agreement for Electronic Journal Content Through 2016 in Healthtechzone 29.11.2011, Digital Journal 29.11.2011, News Blaze 29.11.2011, Green Technology World 29.11.2011

Sustainability

Best practice criteria for sustainable e-learning (write up of a JISC session) in Doug Clow's New Technology in higher education 2.11.2011
Opening up University Energy Data in OUseful.Info, the blog 3.11.2011

Positive tweets this month include:

ScholarlyComm

Helpful to hear how @JISC is looking into digital preservation issues. http://bit.ly/vhZS9t (via @digitalkoans)

October 2011

Collaboration with business

JISC panelist Simon Whittemore in business and community collaboration discussion in Guardian Higher Education Network 7.10.2011

JISC communications

amplifying events The event amplifier 10.10.2011

Digital literacy

digital literacy in University of Lincoln 10.10.2011
combating technophobia in Management Today 1.10.2011

Digital resources

videos for education in Institute of education, University of London 3.10.2011
rare seaside postcards in Academic Services blog at University of Aberystwyth 20.10.2011
URL toolkit in Matt Jukes’ blog Digital by Default 21.10.2011
History to Her Story in Guardian 5.10.2011, Yorkshire Post 7.10. 2011, Bronte blog 7.10.2011, LSE library 13.10.2011, Peter Scott’s blog 8.10.2011
early music online in Get Surrey 6.10.11, Teleread, Glasgow School of Art, Reformatorisch Dagblad Muziek, ereaders nieuws 4.10.2011, e-bio news 1.10.2011
partnerships and the digital public space in BBC News 10.10.2011
case studies in sustainability in Digital Koans and Infodocket 6.10.2011
open educational resources report in Tony Bates 3.10.2011

Innovation

coding convention in The Lincolnite 10.10.2011

Licensing resources

new licensing agreement with JISC Collections in Newswire PR Today 21.10.2011
Amber Thomas on open educational resources in Guardian Higher Education Network 7.10.2011

Legal and ethical

how universities got it so wrong over Patriot Act outsourcing (JISC Legal) in ZDnet 20.10.2011
cloud computing in The Register 7.10.2011

Networks

JANET in Guardian Government Computing 27.10.2011
distributed learning systems in Andy Tedd@cemp 5.10.2011

Online learning

re-envisioning learning spaces in David Jakes presentation resources October 2011
how to use mobile devices in the classroom (JISC InfoNet) in Guardian Teacher Network 26.10.2011
inclusion in The Royal Gazette 17.10.2011
assessment in Andy Tedd The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice 17.10.2011
learning environments and guest post in Dangerously irrelevant 15.10.2011
using social media in FE News 13.10.2011
Me-learning event review in Q2 news 8.10.2011
Doug Belshaw (JISC InfoNet) in Wikipedia in Dangerously Irrelevant 10.10.2011

Open access

JISC panellists in the discussion on open access in higher education on Guardian Higher Education Network 28.10.2011
new open access repository search engine CORE in Times Higher Education 13.10.2011, Staffordshire University 12.10.2011, DigitalKogans 3.10.2011, Libraryfit 3.10.2011, Infodocket 3.10.2011

Research data management

research data management online learning resource in Teaching and developing online 28.10.2011, University of Melbourne Library Intelligencer blog 19.10.2011, LSE’s research laboratory data service 18.10.2011
digital preservation in Research Information November 2011
digital curation in Digital Kogans 10.10.2011
open data licensing in InfoDocket 5.10.2011

Policy

Christa Appleton, JISC Regional Support Centre West Midlands in discussion on higher education in colleges in the Guardian Higher Education Network 19.10.2011

Research

Patients Participate in Research Information November 2011 and Science intelligence 20.10.2011
Living Books about Life in Professor VJ’s blog 28.10.2011
eSciDoc-Days in openpr.com 18.10.2011

Sustainability

sustainability discussion with Rob Bristow as panelist in Guardian Higher Education Network 13.10.2011
partnerships and the Digital Public Space in BBC Blog 10.10.2011
energy reduction in UK universities in Net traveller 4.10.2011

Positive tweets this month include:

GuardianHigherEd

#FF ppl always keen to contribute @suebecks @mary_churchill @JISC @Vitae_news @SussexTLDU @UVenus @acepins @cgibbons140 @researchimpact

September 2011

Research

apps for research: the LeafWatch app on the One Show (YouTube link) 16.9.2011
JISC Collections in Scientific World Journal 5.9.2011
Research data management in Infodocket 19.9.2011
JISC's research conference in the UK Research Integrity Office , Remoteworker and Event Amplifier 16.9.2011
Incentivising data sharing in Research Information 21.9.2011
data sharing report in Economic and Social Data service and KnowledgeSpeak 1.9.2011
readiness for REF event on LSE 8.9.2011
open access work in Australian policy online 18.9.2011
legal issues in the cloud in Information Today Europe 1.9.2011
analysing research impact in Network News 30.9.2011

Infrastructure

Dr Malcolm Read interviewed on cloud computing in Borderless Higher Education Observatory 2.9.2011
open source in PublicTechnology.net 6.9.2011

Supporting students

'Emerging practice in a digital age' guide in Keith's teaching and learning with ICT blog and Net Gen Skeptic 8.9.2011
eportfolios in Ian Nox's blog 9.9.2011
media zoo in 24dash.com 9.9.2011
course data call in OUseful.info

Support for administration

Lawrie Phipps on supporting support staff on the Guardian Higher Education Network 7.9.2011
JANET the research and support network on the Times Higher 8.9.2011
Guardian Higher Education Network references to the JISC blog on Twitter
embedding impact analysis in Centre for Public Engagement 23.9.2011
sale of Twapperkeeper for preserving Twitter posts on OUseful.info 19.9.2011

Putting content online for education and research

British Cartoon Archive on Library Intelligencer 16.9.2011
engaging library users at the Ithaca conference in Library Journal , Inside Higher Education and the Chronicle of Higher Education 22.9.2011
early music online in Infodocket.com and Daily Science 29.9.2011
Arabic manuscripts online in Tabsir.com and Brazil-Arab news agency 4.9.2011
Museum of Design in Plastics in Mod Librarian September 2011

August 2011

Digitisation

Alastair Dunning’s blog post on crowdsourcing in the Guardian 29.7.2011
Kay's catalogue project in Peter Scott’s blog 29.7.2011
digital preservation toolkit in Knowledgespeak.com 8.8.2011

E-learning

virtual learning in e-learning stuff 29.7.2011
open educational resources in York St John University Library and Information Management 29.7.2011

Green ICT

data centre work in DataCenter Dynamics 9.8.2011

JISC's partnerships

partnership work with British Library in Times Higher 18.8.2011

Links with business

benefits of working with JISC in Research Fortnight 23.8.2011

Research

peer review in STM publishing 2.8.2011
Malcolm Read in peer review in Research Information 11.8.2011

Libraries

JISC Collections deal in Taylor & Francis journals in Research Information 12.8.2011
library catalogue in OUseful.info 9.8.2011
Hargreaves report on intellectual property in Knowledgespeak 4.8.2011

Network

JANET in Times Higher 5.8.2011
procurement service in StockMarketWire.com 17.8.2011

Resources for teaching and learning

Geography is social (Edina) in Nature blogs 4.8.2011
Film and sound online in Institute of education – University of London 23.8.2011

July 2011

Research

Alastair Dunning's opinion piece on crowdsourcing in Research Information 19.7.2011 and the Guardian 29.7.2011
Second life printing press in Martin Hamilton's blog 24.7.2011
JISC Collections journal subscriptions in The Chronicle of Higher Education 22.7.2011

Digitisation and online content

Arab medicine online in Wired 28.7.2011
World of Kays digitisation project in Droitwich Advertiser 15.7.2011; Mail Online 28.7.2011
Visualising China in Library Intelligencer blog 11.7.2011; Information World Review 8.7.2011; Infodocket.com 8.7.2011
Darwin’s library online in Teleread 23.6.2011
Aaron Porter’s blog on the Guardian Higher Education Network 28.7.2011
Old Bailey records online on BBC Radio 4 blog 25.7.2011
JISC’s strategic content alliance in Library.ie 26.7.2011
British Library JISC projects in First Angel Arts Magazine 29.7.2011

Teaching and learning

Virtual learning environments in e learning stuff blog 29.7.2011
Open educational resources in York St John University Library and Information Management blog 29.7.2011; OER wizards in Pontydysgu.org 4.7.2011
Evaluation in Literacy, language and leadership 4.7.2011

Legal and ethical uses of technology

JISC Techdis joined in the Guardian's live chat on intellectual property rights 25.7.2011

Open data

JISC in Guardian Government Computing 7.7.2011; Pontydysgu Bridge to learning 26.7.2011; iCommons 11.7.2011; Libwebrarian 13.7.2011; Peter Scott's library blog 20.7.2011; University of Oregon 13.7.2011; Information Today Europe 13.7.2011; European public sector information re-use platform 11.7.2011

Policy

JISC reponse to the Hargreaves review in the Telegraph 14.7.2011
JISC in transition in Prof Douglas Kell’s blog on Nature.com 27.6.2011

Shared services

will universities share services? in Guardian 4.7.2011
JISC's shared services work in Bill St Arnaud's Buddeblog 13.7.2011

June 2011

Online resources and digitisation

Digging into data in The Chronicle of Higher Education 10 June 2011 and a second piece 11 June 2011; Nature 16 June 2011 (PDF)
Scots words and placenames project on BBC Radio Scotland – The Culture Cafe [from 28min 55 secs] 21 June 2011
Digitisation in Oxford libraries graduate trainees programme 9 June 2011
The British Library and higher education in Canningcircus blog 18 June 2011

Open

JISC scholarly communications roundtable debate in Research Information 3 June 2011; Library Intelligencer; Stephen Downes’ blog 1 June; Digitally and scholarly blog 6 June 2011
Open data: Research Information and the snowball effect of social media in this story analysed on UK WebFocus Daily 16 June 2011
Also Discovery.ac.uk Icommons 3 June 2011; open data at Lincoln Expedient Means 9 June 2011; the rhetoric of openness in Jenny connected 24 June 2011;
The power of open book launch on creative commons

Cloud computing

Universities modernisation fund in STM publishing group 24 June 2011 and e-foundations 24 June 2011

Searching for resources

Intute on IR thoughts blog 1 June 2011

Research tools

Use of web 2.0 tools for research on Learning and teaching institute 20 June 2011
Organising your data OUseful.Info 20 June 2011

Researchers of tomorrow study

Information World Review 9 June 201; Library Intellligencer 14 June 2011; Resource Connections 10 June 2011; KnowledgeSpeak.com 10 June 2011

Learning and teaching

Web 2.0 tools in Learning Games 12 June 2011
Open educational resources on The corridor of uncertainty 26 June 2011

Green

Rob Bristow in Guardian higher education network live online chat 24 June 2011

May 2011

Inclusive technology

JISC Techdis developer competitions on e-politix.com 25 May 2011

Cloud computing

Malcolm Read's talk on Public technology.net 12 May 2011 and Knowledgespeak 20 May 2011
Pontydysgn – Bridge to learning 29 April 2011

Online learning

eportfolios at Sheffield Hallam 3 May 2011
Technology for teaching and learning in Mashe 3 May 2011

JISC’s managing research data

Copyright advice

In from the Cold report BBC 13 May 2011

Digital resources for research

Connected Histories in ElearnCal blog 19 May 2011
New digital newspaper archives in University of British Columbia 10 May 2011
Measuring the impact of your resources in ...and beyond (in Dutch) 23 May 2011 and Science Intelligence and InfoPros 24 May 2011

Support for libraries

Open bibliography and open bibliographic data in Open Knowledge Foundation 3 May 2011
Google generation survey in Information World Review 6.5.2011

Business partnerships

Interface 28 April 2011

Digital infrastructure

Web usability and learnability in IHR Digital 24 May 2011

JISC website mobile platform

University of Bristol 20 May 2011

Procurement

Comment on RSC Yorkshire and Humberside initiative in Cunac blog post 18 May 2011

Licensing and use of resources

A new deal with OUP (JISC Collections mention)
Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum
Usage statistics provide insight into resources
Research Information 2 June 2011
JISC-funded RAPTOR project allows institutions to view usage statistics from different access management systems
Knowledgespeak blog 3 June 2011
Which business and management journal database is best?
Academic database tool
Business Research Plus 18.6.2011
Searching the BUFVC « The Bioscope
Luke McKeran blog 18.6.2011

April 2011

Cloud computing

@UK contract in Daily Mail and StockMarketWire 20 April 2011
Cloud investigation in Pontydysgu/ bridge to learning blog 29 April 2011

Digitisation

Islamic studies on Dutch blog 2 April 2011
Kays catalogue project in Worcester Evening News 4 April 2011
Connected histories project in Information World Review and on Historyonics website and Anglo-Celtic Connections blog 10 April 2011
Museum of Science and Industry project on HowDo.co.uk and University of Manchester website 11 April 2011
18th century collections online in Teleread 26 April 2011

Infrastructure

New 3G data service in Information World Review 26 April 2011

Innovation

Biological imaging work on BBSRC website 5 April 2011
Opening up library data in Research Information April/ May 2011
Business academic projects on Interface online 28 April 2011

JISC's work in colleges - the regional support services

Supporting libraries in Scottish Libraries 1 April 2011
Funding situation in TES Connect 22 April 2011

Leadership

Prof David Baker's blog on investment in technology on the Guardian Higher Education Network 18 April 2011

Learning

JISC's services for learning and teaching reviewed in Kinda Learning Stuff blog 18 April 2011
Open educational resources project on University of Woollagong website 2 May 2011

Market research

JISC/ OCLC research into digital behaviour on Peter Scott's library blog 1 April 2011
JISC's research into smart phones reviewed on Wired.com 25 April 2011

Publishing rights

Strategic Content Alliance advice in research blog 7 April 2011
JISC Collections journal in Peter Scott's library blog 11 April 2011
Open access in Singapore libraries blog 8 April 2011

March 2011

JISC11

Keynote speeches in Times Higher 17 March 2011
Sonic Foundry to partner JISC11 in ITnews 11 March 2011
Amplified event on Lorcan Dempsey’s blog 14 March 2011
Rethinking libraries in Peter Tinson's blog 17 March 2011
Social media channels in Conference News 23 March 2011
Use of Lanyrd in synchesm blog 6 March 2011

Teaching and learning

Big blue button for academia on Pontydysgu bridge to learning blog 1 March 2011
e-learning and distant education resources in Tony Bates blog 14 March 2011

Research

Research data in the cloud in Research Information 2 March 2011
Open access publishing in Times Higher Education 17 March 2011
Digging into data challenge in TTKN news 17 March 2011
Managing research data in ESDC 18 March 2011

Digitisation

Prequel to Natur Cymru in Walesonline 3 March 2011
Witches on trial in 350-year-old notebook in TTKN News ; Peter Scott’s blog ; Caroline's Miscellany ; Ghost Theory; GMA News

Cloud computing

Dr Malcolm Read's talk in Research Information and Scientific Computing World 31 March 2011

Copyright

Malcolm Read's letter published in the Telegraph 4 March 2011
Hargreaves review in Information World Review 4 March 2011

Adminstrative computing

Salford University in Silicon.com 11 March 2011
Shared services in Times Higher 24 March 2011

Social media

The Guardian 14 March 2011

Strategy

JISC strategy toolkit in Research Information 14 March 2011

Green ICT

University of Hertfordshire’s data centre in Data Center Dynamics 30 March 2011

February 2011

Access and identity

UK access management federation in Knowledgespeak 25 February 2011

Accessibility

JISC Techdis toolbar in CPC Computer consultants blog 23 February 2011
JISC Techdis developer competitions in Merlin Jon Online 10 February 2011

Advisory Services

Opinion piece by Seb Schmoller chief executive of the Association of Learning Technology in FE News 8 Feb 2011

Digitisation

University World News 13 February 2011

Green ICT

Planet Filestore in Knowledge Speak 1 February 2011
The future of mapping in GeoConnexion 15 January 2011

Research

Research exhibition evaluation in Resource Shelf 3 February 2011 and Information World Review 2 February 2011

Cloud computing - part of the universities modernisation fund

JISC opinion piece in Research Information 16 February 2011
News in Research Information 11 February 2011
Times Higher Education 7 February 2011
Guardian: government computing 7 February 2011
SourceWire.com 17 February 2011
British Computer Society 18 February 2011
Outsourcery blog 22 February 2011
Cloudtweaks.com 23 February 2011
Information Age 7 February 2011
Future Gov Asia 8 February 2011
Zd.net 7 February 2011

JISC review

Shared services

CPC computer consultants blog

Digitisation

University World News 13 February 2011

Accessibility

JISC Techdis in agent 4 change 10 February 2011

Cloud computing

Universities modernisation fund in Research information 11 February 2011; SourceWire.com 17 February 2011; British Computer Society 18 February 2011; Research Fortnight 8 February 2011; Outsourcery blog 22.2.2011; Cloudtweaks.com 23 February 2011