Podcasts

e-Books are as yet an untapped and underused resource – a resource which could have a major impact on access to key texts particularly for undergraduates.

Repositories are being established and developed across the UK to help make research papers and other resources freely available to all who want to use them.

Membership of the UK Access Management Federation recently reached 100.

The Jisc IPR Consultancy was started in October 2005 to provide expert advice to Jisc in the area of intellectual property rights.  IPR Consultants Naomi Korn and Charles Oppenheim talked to Sara Hassen, Jisc Communications Manager, in a Skype interview about the interesting challenges we will f

The £22m Jisc digitisation programme is making available a wide range of vital scholarly resources to UK education and research.

David Robey is contracted as Director of the AHRC’s ICT in Arts and Humanities Research programme, a 5-year programme running until 2008 to build on AHRC’s groundwork in ICT provision.

Kevin Guthrie is president of the US-based Ithaka, an organisation which supports innovation in the use of ICT, providing shared services and national initiatives for the benefit of US higher education.

Joyce Ray is Associate Deputy Director for Library Services at the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a US-based funder of digitisation and other programmes.

Google has quickly become a key player in the digitisation of scholarly resources.

Chris Batt is the Chief Executive of the Museum Libraries and Archives Council, a key partner of Jisc’s in the Strategic Content Alliance, a cross-sectoral body looking to widen access to online content for all citizens of the UK.