Licence agreements

We focus on securing agreements that respond to our members strategic priorities and address challenges in licensing.

Here you’ll find all of our agreements available through license subscription manager and Chest, covering enterprise software, digital research tools and content, and solutions for teaching, learning, and assessment. Governed by UUK strategic and expert groups and developed in collaboration with key professional bodies, these agreements are collectively negotiated by Jisc on behalf of the sector. This approach saves members time, secures the best prices and removes the need for individual negotiations.

Cyber security

Strengthen your organisation’s security posture with sector-negotiated access to leading cyber security tools. These agreements focus on reducing cyber risk, improving visibility across hybrid estates, and supporting compliance and insurer expectations, while keeping costs predictable.

Network detection and response

Software asset and licence management

Endpoint detection and response

Vulnerability, patch and external attack surface management

Cyber security training, awareness and behaviour change

Email security and domain protection

External attack surface management

Backup and recovery and ransomware resilience

Data and insights

Help your organisation turn data into decisions. These agreements support data capture, analytics, qualitative and quantitative research, and student support tools, providing a path from raw data to actionable insight.

Reference management

Data capture and data analysis tools

AI student support platform

Student lifecycle

Student lifecycle refers to the full journey of a learner from enquiry to graduation and beyond, and historically it relies on a student record system as the central system that manages, stores and coordinates all the data, processes and statutory reporting that underpin each stage of that journey. Our goal is simply to find modern, better ways of supporting these needs.

Student voice and collaboration

Productivity and collaboration

Tools that help staff and students create and manage content, communicate clearly in visual and written forms, and work together efficiently across teams and disciplines.

Data optimisation and storage governance (M365 and beyond)

Productivity and collaboration suites

Creative and digital media platforms

Student learning and experience

Building an inclusive, interoperable digital learning environment to match the curriculum delivery aspirations of institutions. These agreements support sustainable routes to market for innovative learning management systems, lecture capture and video at scale and continue to provide academic learning resources to library teams.

Academic learning resources

Curriculum delivery

learning management systems

Lecture capture and video management

Accessibility

Student wellbeing

Employability and skills

Translating national and regional skills priorities into licensed solutions. These agreements span industry-aligned content and software, including support for baseline-to-advanced digital and AI literacy, industry-specific software packages to deliver priority disciplines/courses, innovative platforms to support under-resource careers teams and scale workplace learning (placements and apprenticeships).

Industry skills and resources

Industry and course software

Employability and digital skills

Careers management and employer engagement

Assessment and feedback

Improve assessment quality, turnaround and integrity in a gen-AI world. These agreements provide secure digital exams, AI-assisted marking and feedback that augments academic judgement, promote authentic assessments that strengthen learning and employability, and embed holistic academic integrity approaches.

AI-assisted marking and feedback

Increasing research impact and reach

Providing institutions with authoritative research content and open access publishing agreements that streamline workflows, ensure funder compliance, and deliver predictable, sustainable cost management. By making research outputs openly available to all these agreements promote collaborations, support teaching, and amplify the impact and global reach of UK research.

Disciplinary and secondary disciplinary research content

Aggregated inter-disciplinary research content

Abstract and citation databases

Business intelligence tools

Research commercialisation and IP management

Research impact

Secure and sustainable digital research infrastructure

Trusted community-driven solutions offering cost-effective, trusted and transparent models that increase institutional resilience, promote open research and align with institutional and funder priorities.

Open infrastructure

Accelerating research discovery and translation

Research synthesis

Electronic research notebooks

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