New Interactive Maps Reveal London’s History in Unprecedented Detail
From the JISC Web Site: Locating London’s Past is a new JISC-funded website that lets users delve deep into the capital’s past, revolutionising our understanding of London’s history. The website is the...
View ArticleFull Text: New From JISC: Technology Forecasting Literature Review (Summary)
The literature review was prepared specifically for the UK Higher Ed. community. However, for those outside of the UK we think the documents will be of interest to you. All of the sources used to...
View ArticleNew Report From Strategic Content Alliance/Ithaka S+R: "Funding for...
Title: “Funding for Sustainability: How Funders’ Practices Influence the Future of Digital Resources. Authors: Nancy L. Maron and Matthew Loy From News Release: Ithaka S+R, funded by the JISC-led...
View ArticleJISC and Other UK Organizations Call For All UK Metadata to Be Openly Accessible
From a JISC Announcement: Unlocking the descriptive information or metadata about digital content, articles, books and research is the key to making it more useful, according to the JISC-funded...
View ArticleUK Government Pledges Copyright Reform, Reactions From the Library and...
From Ars Technica: The British government today pledged (PDF) to enact significant changes to copyright law, including orphan works reforms and the introduction of new copyright exceptions. And the...
View ArticleNew From Ithaka S+R: Research Support Services for Scholars
From an Ithaka S+R Announcement: Ithaka S+R is pleased to announce a new program, Research Support Services for Scholars, that will comprise a series of discipline-specific research projects aimed to...
View ArticleDigitization: New: "Ancient Music Books Accessible to All" (Early Music Online)
From Royal Holloway, University of London: Fragile treasures of 16th Century music are now freely available online, thanks to a partnership between Royal Holloway, University of London, the British...
View ArticleUK’s First Open Access Full-Text Search Engine to Aid Research
From JISC: Open access research is now more accessible as JISC has developed a new search engine to help academics, students and the general public navigate papers held in the UK’s open access...
View ArticleNew UK Digitisation Projects: "Skeletons, English Place Names and Health...
From a JISC Announcement: JISC will be investing £5.6 million in 24 projects across 30 universities and cultural heritage organisations to bring selected archives out of the vaults and onto computer...
View ArticleOAPEN-UK: New Project Will Look at Challenges of Open Access Scholarly...
From the Program Announcement (via JISC): The academic monograph is under threat. Increased costs and lower print runs are impacting on the principle means by which researchers share their knowledge...
View ArticleUK: Martyn Harrow Appointed New Head of JISC
From a JISC Announcement: Martyn Harrow, Director of Information Services at Cardiff University, has been appointed as Head of JISC for a fixed term of 9-18 months from 1 February 2012. Martyn will...
View ArticleNew From JISC and Open Humanities Project: "Launch of 'Living' Books Breaks...
From the JISC Web Site: A series of 21 ‘living books’ has been launched online as part of a pioneering initiative designed to provide a bridge between the humanities and the sciences. The Living Books...
View ArticleNew British Library, JISC Agreements for Elsevier and Taylor & Francis
From The Bookseller: Elsevier and Taylor & Francis have both signed agreements with the British Library which aim to improve the speed of delivery of documents to non-commercial readers abroad. The...
View ArticleCRL, CRKN, and JISC Form Partnership to Explore Challenges in Acquisition and...
From the Centers for Research Libraries (CRL): Recently CRL collection development staff met with the senior leadership of two major national site licensing organizations: the Canadian Research...
View ArticleNew Article: "OpenART: Open Metadata for Art Research at the Tate"
Title OpenART: Open Metadata for Art Research at the Tate Author by Julie Allinson Source Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (February/March 2012; Vol. 38 No. 3)...
View ArticleA MASSIVE Collection of Historical Maps Launches Online: 60K Maps Available...
via JISC: The JISC-funded Old Maps Online, described by its creators as like Google for old maps, will act as a central repository to a vast collection of maps held by institutions across the globe....
View ArticleNew Report from JISC: "Value and Benefits of Text Mining"
A new report from the JISC. Focus is UK (JISC is a UK organization) but we think the report will be of interest and value to everyone interested in the topic no matter where they work and live. From a...
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New Issue of JISC Inform Features Interview with Harvard’s Robert Darnton...
Issue 33 (Spring 2012) of JISC Inform was released earlier today. Direct to Complete Table of Contents Articles Include: Digital Public Library of America “Robert Darnton, director of the University...
View ArticleVideo Series: Sustaining Digital Resources With Nancy Maron from Ithaka S+R
From the Strategic Content Alliance Blog: Since 2007, Ithaka S+R and the Strategic Content Alliance have led the way in examining ways that the academic and cultural heritage sectors are defining...
View ArticleFinal TechWatch Report: Delivering Web to Mobile
Final Report (Ver. 1.0) Title Delivering Web to Mobile Author Mark Power, JISC CETIS From the Introduction: The use of mobile devices for the consumption and use of Web content and services has grown...
View ArticleHow Do Learners Develop Digital Literacies? (Digital Visitors/Residents...
A new progress report (June 2012) from the Digital Visitors and Residents project is now available. This research effort comes from a JISC, OCLC Research, and University of North Carolina partnership....
View ArticleInternational Collaboration Will Develop Open Repository For Academic Library...
From JISC: Kuali OLE, one of the largest academic library software collaborations in the United States, and JISC, the UK’s expert on digital technologies for education and research, announce a...
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New Briefing Paper Looks at JISC’s Work in Developing Digital Literacy
A look at the work being done by JISC in the UK. Universities and colleges have an increasing responsibility to develop digitally literate graduates in order to meet student expectations and the...
View ArticleUK: Jisc Collections and Open Access Key to Collaborate on UK Gold OA Article...
From JISC Collections: Jisc Collections, the UK academic community’s shared service for content licensing and administration, has entered into an agreement with Open Access Key (OAK), the online...
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