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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Resource Discovery Network for Further Education This project will develop the content of RDN hub catalogues to include considerably more content suitable for FE users.

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

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...

Chemistry Using Text Annotations This project will integrate Cambridge's chemical text mining tool OSCAR with the U-Compare workflow infrastructure developed by NaCTeM and others. This integration adds chemistry to the world's...

Zetoc Zetoc provides Z39.50-compliant access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC).

UK Data Archive The UK Data Archive (UKDA) is a national resource centre that acquires, disseminates, preserves and promotes the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the United...

Intute Intute is a free online service providing access to the very best web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists...

Copac Copac provides free access to the merged catalogues of 24 major university research libraries in the UK and Ireland, plus the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the National...

SUNCAT SUNCAT, a serials union catalogue for the UK, for locating serials held in UK libraries.

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...

Erewhon Project Plan PDF document With the advent of more powerful and developer-accessible mobile computing platforms such as Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android and the creation of the Symbian Foundation, pervasive computing is...

Low Cost URL Resolver Final Report PDF document This is the report from a scoping study funded by JISC to investigate whether comprehensive deployment of OpenURL resolvers within UK Higher Education and larger Further Education Institutions is...

Low Cost URL Resolver Final Report Addendum PDF document On submission of the project report to scope a low-cost OpenURL resolver for UK HE/FE, JISC indicated that as demand for a resolver based on a centralised Knowledge Base (KB) is likely to be low...

Towards the academic library of the future PDF document JISC Conference 09: This session will introduce some of the issues to be explored by the collaborative Horizon Scan initiative to chart the strategic future of libraries and will elicit the views of...

MDC Project Plan PDF document The project will develop Search interfaces that insulate the user from the complexities of querying digital repositories using interoperable standards. The open source JAFER software will be...