JISC

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 and Asset Management This programme aims to raise awareness of digital preservation issues and will set in motion a process of integrating digital preservation and asset management into institutional strategies and...

Users & Innovation: Personalising Technologies Based on the needs of real end-users, the programme will identify areas where innovative user technologies and practices can increase efficiency.

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...

e-Learning Frameworks and Tools programme The e-Learning Framework is a service-oriented factoring of the core services required to support e-Learning applications, portals and other user agents.

Google Generation The University College London (UCL) CIBER group will be conducting a study for the JISC and the British Library to investigate how the Google generation searches for information and the implications...

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...

Library Management Systems Horizon Scan Library Management Systems Study - An evaluation and horizon scan of the current library management systems and related systems landscape for UK Higher Education

Simple Web Service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD) The project will take forward the Deposit protocol, developed by a small working group as part of the JISC Digital Repositories programme, by implementing it as a lightweight web-service in four...

York Digital Library – Integration for the Next Generation This project will implement and develop a number of technologies to enhance and embed repositories into the information infrastructure of the University of York.

JISC RSCs (Regional Support Centres) The 13 JISC RSCs provide a comprehensive, regionally-based support service for the use of networked learning technologies and resources for FE Colleges, small HE Colleges and other local educational...

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.

UKOLN UKOLN is a research organisation that aims to inform practice and influence policy in the areas of: digital libraries, information systems, bibliographic management, and web technologies.

Information Environment Service Registry (IESR) The Information Environment Service Registry has been developed to provide a registry of information about electronic resources that are of value to teachers, researchers and learners.

JANET CSIRT JANET CSIRT is the security coordination team for the JANET network.

Podcast: Professor Drummond Bone of Universities UK gives his backing to JISC’s repositories work MP3 (Duration: 12.06) As President of Universities UK and Vice Chancellor of Liverpool University, Professor Drummond Bone’s thoughts on how UK education and research can maximise its impact across the...

Podcast: 'The Google Generation' – myth or reality? MP3 (Duration: 22.04) A new report, commissioned by JISC and The British Library, counters the common assumption that the 'Google Generation' - young people born or brought up in the internet age - is...

Podcast: Digitisation is opening library doors to the whole world, says SCONUL's secretary MP3 (Duration: 9.06) The library of the future is a digital one, says Toby Bainton, and digitisation is at the forefront of ensuring that important scholarly resources are made more widely available and...

Podcast: The open access argument is won, says leading advocate MP3 (Duration: 11.43) A petition organised by JISC, European partners and SPARC Europe attracted nearly 25,000 signatures in 2007, including a number of Nobel Prize winners, as well as more than 800...

Podcast: The Strategic Content Alliance with Emma Beer MP3 (Duration: 05.35) The Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) is a three year JISC-funded initiative committed to delivering a co-ordinated framework of principles and best practice for the provision of...

Meta Tools Final Report PDF document Automatic metadata generation has sometimes been posited as a solution to the ‘metadata bottleneck’ that repositories and portals are facing as they struggle to provide resource discovery metadata...

JISC preservation of web resources handbook PDF document The handbook aims to provide suggestions for best practice and advice aimed at UK higher and further educational institutions, to enable the preservation of websites and web-based resources.

Blooming CQF Project plan PDF document The project will be carried out through a partnership of Scottish Further Education Unit (SFEU), Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), the Scottish FE Librarians Community of Practice, eCom...

Pirus Proiect Plan PDF document The aim of this project is to develop COUNTER-compliant usage reports at the individual article level that can be implemented by any entity (publisher, aggregator, IR, etc.,) that hosts online...

International Approaches to Enabling the Sharing of Data - Main Findings PDF document A summary of the main findings of the report - a comparative study of international approaches to enabling the sharing of data.