Resource Discovery
Resource discovery encompasses locating and retrieving information in large, complex networked environments, including the internet. As volume increases year on year, digital information can be increasingly hard to find. JISC's resource discovery work seeks to provide advanced technical solutions that can help users within academia find their way through volumes of information, and more easily access published material.
Key resource discovery activities
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Programmes
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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Projects
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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Services
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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...
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Copac
Copac is a freely available resource discovery tool that enables users to search the online catalogues of nearly 60 major University, Specialist, and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland, all at...
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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...
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Archives Hub
The Archives Hub provides a gateway to thousands of the UK’s archives. Representing nearly 200 institutions across the country, the Archives Hub is an effective way to discover unique and often...
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Zetoc
Zetoc provides Z39.50-compliant access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC).