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Access and Identity Management Programme The Access and Identity Management (AIM) programme will consider the state of the art in access and identity management, in terms of policy, process and technology.

Repositories and Preservation Programme The programme is a £14m investment in Higher Education repository and digital content infrastructure. It will fund initiatives to develop the Information Environment supporting digital repositories...

Digital preservation & records management programme Supporting institutions in long-term digital asset management and preservation forms a central theme of JISC's Digital Preservation and Records Management programme.

e-Infrastructure Programme Following the initial five year investment in the UK e-Science infrastructure, the vision for the e-Infrastructure programme is to enhance and consolidate the current technologies and establish...

Institutional Innovation Programme The Institutional Innovation programme represents a £13.08m investment aimed at supporting existing institutional strategies by providing solutions to institution-wide problems, based upon proven...

19th century pamphlets online This project will provide online access to the most significant collections of 19th century pamphlets held in UK research libraries. Digitising around 30,000 paper copy pamphlets, which focus on the...

British newspapers 1620-1900 1.1 million pages are being digitised from 18th and 19th century news, building on previous projects to enable access to a virtual library containing some 4 million digitised pages of important...

A digital library of core e-resources on Ireland The digitisation of over 70 key journals, 205 monographs and 2,500 manuscript pages from core Irish Studies collections makes this comprehensive, multi-disciplinary digital library the first point of...

NewsFilm online The aim of the project is to encode 60,000 items totalling 3,000 hours of ITN content (1955 to date) and Reuters content (1896 to date). This represents 1% of the 300,000 hours of content currently...

Data Curation for e-science in the UK This consultancy will establish the current provision and future requirements for curation of primary research data being generated within e-science in the UK.

JANET JANET(UK) manages the operation and development of JANET, the UK's education and research network, on behalf of JISC for the UK Further and Higher Education Funding Councils.

UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research The UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research is funded by JISC and Becta, and operated by JANET(UK). The federation provides a single solution to access online resources and...

Podcast interview with Ale de Vries, Elsevier Science Direct MP3 (Duration: 16.34) 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...

Podcast: Membership of the UK Access Management Federation reaches a landmark MP3 (Duration: 7.42) Membership of the UK Access Management Federation recently reached 100. In this podcast Mark Williams, a member of JISC’s access management outreach team, talks to Philip Pothen...

Podcast: Managing identity in education MP3 (Duration: 12.43) Thanks to identity cards and certain high-profile cases of data loss, the issue of identity management is never far from the headlines. In this podcast with Philip Pothen for Inform...

Podcast: The benefits of federated access management MP3 (Duration: 9.26) Membership of the UK Access Management Federation has doubled in around six months as colleges, universities and other organisations adopt new technologies that give students and...

Animation: Federated Access Management Windows Media Video A short animation to help explain what federated access management is and its benefits.

IDMAPS Project Plan PDF document There is a growing demand for data, in a variety of formats from a variety of sources, that can be reused and redeployed to provide the personalisation that its becoming an integral part of student...

Open ID Final Report PDF document The primary aim of the project was to produce a report (this document) to allow decision-makers to understand OpenID’s security properties in order to perform risk assessment of their envisaged use...

Study on identity management for lifelong learning in UK higher and further education: Final Report Word document The JISC commissioned a study to describe current practice and envision future processes in identity management for lifelong learning in UK higher and further education; and to map the differences...

Study on identity management for lifelong learning in UK higher and further education final report Word document The JISC commissioned a study to describe current practice and envision future processes in identity management for lifelong learning in UK higher and further education; and to map the differences...

Federated Access Management and Cross-Sector Issues for UK Education and Health Word document Access management describes the process of providing controlled, secure access to resources. It involves both authentication – the process of determining that a user is who she or he claims to be,...