New book calls for collective action to achieve Open Scholarship
The Knowledge Exchange has published its first book with contributions from Jisc and other experts in the field of Open Scholarship. The book - Open Scholarship and the Need for Collective Action - aims to better understand challenges to make scholarship more open.
11 reasons to go to Newcastle in November
Join us in Newcastle next month for the annual Jisc security conference 2019. Under the theme "discovering the next generation of cyber security, together", delegates will explore emerging trends and threats to the education sector.
Jisc secures two-year pilot transitional open access agreement with Microbiology Society
Jisc and the Microbiology Society have sealed a two-year pilot transitional open access (OA) agreement.
Creating a vision of future research
Jisc is bringing together research leaders in a community workshop to identify how technologies can enhance research.
Ring for resilience
Coleg Sir Gar’s head of IT development Simon Palmer outlines his plans for a resilient, fibre-optic ring network to serve a five-campus college that’s increasingly reliant on bandwidth.
Inspiring women VR pioneers
Immersive technology, the sector which includes virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality, is booming. Could it also be bucking the gender gap trend in technology? Suhad Aljundi, Jisc future technologies developer, talks to some of the women at the forefront of this new tech field.
Student voter registration service gains its 1,000th sign up
Jisc's student voter registration service, which allows university and college students to quickly and easily register to vote, has reached its first milestone – more than 1,000 student sign ups.
Enabling digital evolution at Weston College
It’s May 2020 and Jon Hofgartner, assistant director at Weston College is in a room on campus preparing for a meeting with his curriculum leads.
New report explores impact of automation on UK research
Today, leading independent think-tank Demos launches its interim report, Research 4.0: Research in the age of automation (pdf), supported by Jisc.
One million pages on the history of science freely available for researchers, students and teachers
Jisc and global publisher Wiley are poised to digitise a one-million-page collection on the history of science.