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Bridging the Divide: The role of libraries in the sciences

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikolski/3269902495/ While libraries come to terms with new forms of scholarly communication and the technological transformation of the academy, has one academic domain...

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The JISC ebooks universe

My colleague Ben Showers has recently been looking across the work taking place around digital books in all their forms: open textbooks, digital monographs, epub, web-based books. For educational...

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The Future of Library Systems – New Projects

As part of the recent Library Systems funding call  I am pleased to announce that seven new projects have been funded to explore the future of library systems. Details of the successful projects can be...

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Institutional Web Managers Workshop 2012: JISC support for web professionals

I attended the institutional web managers workshop 2012 this week. It is a conference that has been run by UKOLN since the mid 1990s and is a great opportunity for people to share their challenges and...

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Preparing for Mobile: Supporting institutions in a mobile world.

I recently facilitated a workshop at the Institutional Web Managers Workshop (#IWMW12) entitled: Preparing for Mobile. This is a slightly delayed (by holiday) write up of the event and some of the...

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UK Copyright – Update

As part of its implementation work following the Hargreaves Review of IP, the Intellectual Property Office www.ipo.gov.uk has just published the Government’s policy on modernising copyright licensing...

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Digital infrastructure for learning materials: update July 2012

This is a summary of notable developments around work on technology issues around learning materials, mostly by JISC. It’s aimed at the technical and semi-technical and comments/additions are very...

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CASRAI in the UK and beyond…

Great progress is being made on the emerging UK community working with CASRAI (Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information). We are drawing together members of our existing...

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Open data challenges

There was an interesting report released yesterday on the UK Government’s progress towards their open data goals. The report revealed that the Government was on track in terms of the volume of data...

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EduWiki Conference Reflections

Last week I attended a very engaging conference organised by Wikimedia UK, focussed on the uses of Wikipedia in Education: EduWiki . I was on a panel discussing openness in HE and I also I gave a...

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Redesigning Library Systems and Services

Who’d have thought that a redesigned library website could attract quite so much attention. Yet, the recent announcement by Stanford’s University Library that it has redesigned its website seems to...

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Sustaining OA infrastructure

The Knowledge Exchange, of which JISC is a member, has just released a report on the sustainability of OA services and infrastructure. The report identifies services that are considered critical, and...

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When ideals meet reality

At ALT-C in early September I ran a session with David Kernohan on Openness: learning from our history. The theme of the conference was ” a confrontation with reality” so it seemed fitting to explore...

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JISC Guidance on eBooks

JISC Observatory have launched the draft version of a new report on eBooks in Education. This report updates previous work researching the usage and adoption of ebooks within academic institutions and...

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Technology developers: local, connected and strategic

Further / Higher Education (F/HE) in the UK is in the fortunate position to have talented and experienced developers working in its organisations, driving both service development and applied research....

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Licensing Data as Open Data

One of the findings that has emerged clearly from the UK OER Programme and from the UK Discovery work is that for a healthy content ecosystem, information about the content needs to be available to...

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Draft Book on OER Technologies: Into The Wild

Opportunity to preview and contribute to a book about the technical themes emerging from three years of the UK OER Programme Extract from Lorna Campbell’s blogpost: The OER technology directions book...

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Experimenting with the Learning Registry

This post is my reflections on the emerging conclusions from the JLeRN Experiment. Applying a new approach to an old problem Followers of technology trends will have noticed some of the big themes of...

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UKOER: what’s in a tag?

Tuesday 13th November saw the final programme meeting for the UK OER Programme 2009-2012. An aim of the programme had been to find sustainable practices for the release of OER, and there were many...

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15 reusable technology solutions for OER

On behalf of the JISC/HEA UK Open Educational Resources (OER) Programme I am delighted to announce the completion of the OER Rapid Innovation Strand. (also available as a PDF and downloadable file)...

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