JISC

Information Environment Programme 2009-11 The aim of this programme is to improve the capacity of the sector to manage, discover and use information resources. There is now a critical mass of digital information resources that can be used to...

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.

Resource Discovery Programme The JISC needs to develop ways to support seamless, flexible and comprehensive resource discovery across a well managed resource the JISC will help to support the emerging knowledge economy. This...

Infrastructure for Resource Discovery Projects implementing the resource discovery taskforce vision by funding institutions to partner with libraries, archives and museums to make open metadata about their collections available in a...

RePosit: positing a new kind of deposit The RePosit Project seeks to increase uptake of a web-based repository deposit tool embedded in a researcher-facing publications management system. Project work will include gathering feedback from...

Scholarly journal information-seeking: measuring activity and value Research to articulate more clearly the return on investment from academic libraries’ provision of journals to support the core teaching and research activities in UK Universities.

Usability and Contemporary User Experience in Digital Libraries This project addresses the requirement of repositories to fully engage the end users who have become less tolerant of badly design system and expect Web 2.0 experience as norms.

Towards implementation of Library 2.0 and the e-Framework This project will contribute to the JISC Libraries of the Future initiative and the implementation of the JISC Information Environment by investigating developments in Library 2.0 services, within...

User Behaviour Observational Study (Business and Economics) This project is a study of students' and researchers' use of information resources in Business and Economics using observation techniques and cognitive task analysis, and also drawing on analyses of...

Digital Curation Centre The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is a world-leading centre of expertise in digital information curation with a focus on building capacity, capability and skills for research data management across...

UKOLN UKOLN runs a Jisc Innovation Support Centre that provides advice and guidance to UK universities on the strategic and technical implications of technologies in digital libraries, information...