Podcasts

A plethora of resources exist to support and enhance academic staff in their learning and teaching practices.

As investment continues to be made into new build and refurbishment projects across the country, librarians are playing a key role in the design of buildings more suited to current styles of teaching and learning.

Professor John Houghton's work to explore the social and economic impact of open access has had a significant impact on debates in his native Australia.

As part of the Jisc funded Digitisation Programme a new system is being developed called EThOS which will enable researchers and higher education institutions to access and share theses online.

The Google Generation made a major impact when it was published in January of this year.

Jisc is funding a number of projects on reducing the environmental impact of information and communications technology in institutions.

As technology enables us to share information across the Internet, the subject of Intellectual Property Rights is increasing in its profile. In particular to help address who owns, creates and publishes these works.

Susan Smith is a learning support officer for Leeds Metropolitan University and Isabel Arreola is one of the students Susan supports.

Thanks to significant and continued investment in learning, teaching, research – and ICT – the UK higher education sector is well placed to weather uncertain economic times.

The library service at Nottingham Trent University is at the forefront of mainstreaming the issue of accessibility across the institution.