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Startups win thousands to develop edtech innovations
This year Digifest saw nine startups in a battle to bag up to £10,000 per company, and earn expert advice to improve their products to benefit students and institutions alike.
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Libraries set to save thousands with second wave of digital collections group purchasing pilot by Jisc
More publishers, more content, more savings. We've launched the second wave of our pilot which last year saved participating libraries £127,000 on purchasing digital archival collections.
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Threat to researchers’ data prompts “at risk” register of endangered digital species
As technology marches on relentlessly, digital formats are frequently updated and replaced. While this may improve visual or audio quality, or the volume of information which can be recorded, there is a danger that material from the birth of the digital revolution - and beyond - could be lost forever.
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Independent Voices revealed for a digital generation
As historic archives become increasingly digital, it's time to introduce an exciting new collection to the UK.
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Purchasing power - we unveil initiatives to make digital collections affordable
We are giving subscribing universities and research centres access to more than 20 collections from three major publishers, Adam Matthew Digital, Brill and ProQuest, as part of a brand new group-purchasing pilot.
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These edtech startups are competing to win £20,000, who will win and shake up the sector?
This year Jisc’s edtech startups competition has a twist. Next week, nine teams will pitch live to a crowd of sector experts and peers at Digifest, in an attempt to bag the grand prize of a support package worth up to £20,000.
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"It’s stupid that we care about labels so much" - Mike Taylor, open access advocate
As we mark the beginning of another Open Access Week, we speak to Mike Taylor, palaeontologist, open access campaigner and co-founder of Who Needs Access website, about the moral imperative for open access and the destructive power of the brand name in academic publishing.
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The death of the digital native: four provocations from Digifest speaker, Dr Donna Lanclos
In these four provocations, anthropologist Donna Lanclos argues that the notion of the "digital native" is bogus and disempowering, that pandering to student expectations can backfire, universities should be open by default, and our attitude to educational technology needs a rethink.
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"Every week is open access week" - Stuart Lewis, University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh publishes thousands of articles by thousands of authors every year. So how is it coping with the changing tide towards open access?