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New videos showing how JISC is helping researchers achieve faster, better and different research through virtual research environments have just been released. 

The videos feature projects from JISC’s virtual research environment (VRE) programme, which is trying to find ways to connect people and speed up research processes across disciplines. 

JISC's VRE programme manager Frederique van Till explained: “Virtual research environments really speed up the whole chain, and in some ways that makes the work for researchers much faster because it’s easier to get to the resources and the people. It also allows them to branch out into areas they could never have done before by using this new technology.”

Projects featured in the videos include VRE's in archaeology, the study of documents and manuscripts, collaborative research events on the web and the MyExperiment social networking site for scientists.

Professor Mike Fulford from Reading University, who features in the archaelogy video, describes the impact of JISC's work in the area as “simply a revolution”. 

He said: “I used to be a Luddite; the technology was all new to me. But now it’s like an umbilical cord – I can’t do without it.”

The VRE programme is now entering its third phase with a more modular approach aimed at making VRE’s work more effectively between different universities and colleges.

Watch the videos to find out more about the VRE projects

You can also watch the videos on YouTube

Listen to Frederique van Till, JISC VRE programme manager, discussing the latest phase of the programme on the JISC podcast.