JISC

The Access and Identity Management (AIM) programme will consider the state of the art in access and identity management, in terms of policy, process and technology.

This programme will enhance the application of JISC outputs and outcomes in the Higher Education Sector. The programme will work with senior change agents in HEIs (Pro Vice-Chancellors or equivalent)...

This programme aims to enhance institutions’ efficiency, effectiveness and opportunities in BCE activities as well as improve access to institutions’ knowledge and expertise for business and...

As well as seeking to demonstrate ways in which research data management in UK Universities can be improved, the JISC Managing Research Data programme seeks to demonstrate the benefits of making...

The purpose of this strand is to make it easier to deposit into repositories. The projects will identify and implement good practice and technical solutions that can be shared with other instiutions.

The Digging into Data Challenge is an international grant competition sponsored by four leading research agencies, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) from the United Kingdom, the National...

JISC is changing the world of authoritative e-resources through its investment in digitising content from some of the UK’s greatest collections.

The Distributed VLE programme is investigating how institutions can widen the functionality of their VLEs in an interoperable way, to meet identified user needs.

With an investment of £2.1 million JISC has funded this new programme of work which will not only create more digital content, but also to help sustain and deliver existing content in a more...

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...

This strand is helping academic library's explore the future of their management systems, and providing users with convenient and easy access to the huge range of digital information resources which...

This £2M programme aims to advance the agenda in architectural agility across institutions is higher education and in closer alignment between institutional needs and its underlying technologies.

The Getting Greener Programme will allow JISC to deliver on its key strategic priority of enabling the greening of ICT in the Higher and Further Education sectors through organisational change and...

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...

These projects are enabling researchers to take advantage of new developments in infrastructure.

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...

The Learning and SWaNI FE Teaching Innovation Grants programme supports one year projects from further education colleges from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland of up to £50,000 each dealing with...

Projects developing and implementing the use of appropriate technologies and processes to enable HE-level learning services that meet the needs of learners in the workplace, and of their employers....

Projects developing and implementing the use of appropriate technologies and processes to enable HE-level learning services that meet the needs of learners in the workplace, and of their employers....

At a general level, support for projects within the Managing Research Data Programme is being provided by the DCC (www.dcc.ac.uk). More specific support is being provided by two additional funded...

The scientific process is enhanced by managing and sharing research data. Good research data management practice allows reliable verification of results and permits new and innovative research built...

Between August 2010 and August 2011, JISC and the Academy are supporting projects and activities that support the open release of learning resources and the discovery and use of these resources..

The purpose of the preservation exemplars strand of projects is to exploit the value of recent work in the field of preservation and related activites.

This strand explores the use of repositories to manage and share content produced by institutions. This content could be learning resources, research data or research outputs. The projects in this...

The aim of the Research Communities Engagement programme is to build on the findings and outputs from these earlier projects with the aim of developing initiatives to foster greater use of advanced...

Higher education institutions are coming under increasing pressure to manage the research data generated by their researchers that cannot be curated by subject-based data centres - and many are...

Good research data management is the foundation for good research. Improving the way in which research data is managed will rely on close partnership between stakeholders and an understanding of the...

Improving research data management in UK Universities requires increasing skills and capacity as well as implementing technical infrastructure.

Computation has become a key component to many research areas. Provision of mid-level systems, the integration of appropriate applications and collaborative technologies sitting upon leading-edge...

The JISC needs to develop ways to support seamless, flexible and comprehensive resource discovery across a well managed resource the JISC will help to support the emerging knowledge economy. This...

The aim of this strand is to explore ways of providing seamless access to resources for learning and research in Higher Education.

Shared Infrastructure Services (SIS) will be part of an infrastructure that supports the deposit, discovery, access and use of objects and services by software applications and will increase...

This work package focuses not on information skills or skills for harnessing technology per se, but on the impact of new ways of working that arise from adopting ICT and technology supported...

This workpackage aims to identify what practical and financial benefits have accrued from the implementation and use of integrated information management environments, helping senior institutional...

The programme seeks to involve all sectors of the research community and recognises the need to support research activities within and across disciplinary boundaries.