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These include Open Access, Open Resources, Open Source and Open Standards. The word ‘Open' indicates public availability, which JISC works to encourage.

Open Technologies

These include Open Access, Open Resources, Open Source and Open Standards. The word ‘Open' indicates public availability, which JISC works to encourage. Open Access refers to free public access to electronic journal articles that traditionally would have required a fee. Readers are not normally able to change the original article. Open Resources and Open Source refer respectively to digital teaching materials and software that a user may access, adapt, redistribute and reuse, sometimes for a fee and under certain terms. Open Standards also allow users to participate in further standards development.

Key open technologies activities

24 Programmes
  • e-Learning programme The JISC e-learning programme enables the development and effective use of digital technologies to support learning and teaching in universities and colleges, so that staff benefit from e-learning...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Learning and teaching innovation grants JISC is supporting, via this programme, one year projects and activities that fit with the vision, outcomes and principles of the JISC e-Learning programme and support innovative approaches to...

  • 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.

119 Projects
  • British newspapers 1620-1900 1.1 million pages are being digitised from 18th and 19th century news, building on previous projects to enable access to a virtual library containing some 4 million digitised pages of important...

  • Historic boundaries of Britain This project will create a comprehensive digital library of historic administrative boundaries for Britain through a combination of scanning historical maps and creating vector boundaries for...

  • 19th century pamphlets online This project will provide online access to the most significant collections of 19th century pamphlets held in UK research libraries. Digitising around 30,000 paper copy pamphlets, which focus on the...

  • Overlay journal infrastructure for Meteorological Sciences (OJIMS) This project is a partnership between the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS) and the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, led at the University of Leeds, and including the British Atmospheric...

  • The John Johnson collection: An archive of printed ephemera The John Johnson Collection is widely recognised as one of the most important collections of printed ephemera in the world and generally regarded as the most significant single collection of ephemera...

5 Services
  • Technology and Standards Watch (TechWatch) TechWatch anticipates developments in information and communication technologies that might have high impact on the core business of Further and Higher Education in five to ten years' time.

  • JISC Legal JISC Legal is a free information service offering high quality legal information to further and higher education relating to the use of information and communications technologies. It runs training...

  • OSS Watch OSS Watch (open source software advisory service promotes awareness and understanding of the legal, social, technical and economic issues that arise when educational institutions engage with free and...

  • JISC CETIS (JISC Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards) JISC CETIS advises Universities and Colleges on the strategic, technical and pedagogic implications of educational technology standards.

  • Unlock Unlock the hidden potential in your resources with this set of web services including placename extraction from text, geographic search, and crosswalking between different types of location reference.

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