Podcasts

Researchers from across Europe have made an extraordinary discovery about a 2000 year old Roman tablet using new technology funded by Jisc.The wooden tablet, previously believed to describe the sale of an ox, has proved instead to show a receipt for a slave’s repayment of a cash loan to the wife

As global markets report a cloud computing boom, Jisc is preparing to announce the results of this year’s studies into how this kind of virtual computing can support research.

Researchers in different locations can now work online together and collaborate with access to all kinds of resources, through what is known as a virtual research environment (VRE).

As the financial situation that universities face looks increasingly likely to be difficult, collaboration is becoming crucial as a way of improving effectiveness and efficiency.

With challenging times ahead for the UK’s higher education sector, the role of business and industry in higher education moves to centre stage in the debates about funding, international competitiveness and employment.

The amount of information in our digital universe is expected to double in size every 18 months, according to a recent report – so how do universities choose which of these new information bits to keep and which to discard?

Bill St. Arnaud is the President of a Green-IT consulting firm St. Arnaud-Walker and Associates Inc.

At the recent Higher Education Policy Institute and Jisc seminar, Nicola Dandridge Chief Executive of Universities UK and Nicholas Barr, Professor of Public Economics, London School of Economics gave their views on the topic of the financing of higher education as a starting point to generate di

A new report launched today (25 February 2010) shows how universities can work out how much they could save on their profit and loss accounts as well as increasing their contribution to UK plc when they share their research papers through Open Access.

The internet has made sharing library catalogue records easier for libraries and users – but with it comes a new set of challenges surrounding the legal implications.  A new Jisc toolkit helps librarians navigate the legal minefield of making their catalogue records available to others.