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Students are increasingly becoming familiar with using social networking and other interactive web services such as Facebook, MySpace, Flickr and YouTube.

The Jisc-funded TechWatch service recently published a major - and hugely popular - report on Web 2.0 and its implications for education and research.

Are we now on the cusp of a new era in IT and user behaviour, which could fundamentally change the way in which information is created, used and managed?

All researchers and academic authors in the UK now have a repository in which to deposit their research papers under terms of open access.

The UK Access Management Federation launched in November 2006 and provides the UK Schools, Research, Further and Higher Education sectors with a secure way of accessing online learning materials and services using federated access management technology such as Shibboleth.

As President of Universities UK and Vice Chancellor of Liverpool University, Professor Drummond Bone’s thoughts on how education and research can maximise its impact across the world carry particular weight.

A major international conference on digitisation took place in Cardifflast week.