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Summative evaluation of Phase 3 of the eLib Initiative
Alan Whitelaw, Gill Joy
May 08, 2001
This is the Executive Summary for the ESYS Summative Evaluation of Phase 3 of the eLib Programme, undertaken for JISC JCEI under Contract SC/JISC/605. It describes the main achievements of the Programme and presents the findings...
Delivering Web to Mobile
Mark Power
May 01, 2012
This report is intended to help staff of UK education institutions, involved in the development of content, gain an understanding of the emerging approaches to delivering services and content for mobile devices using the...
Summative Evaluation of Phases 1 and 2 of the eLib Initiative
Alan Whitelaw, Gill Joy
Mar 28, 2000
This Executive Summary presents high level findings from the ESYS Summative Evaluation of Phases 1 and 2 of the Electronics Libraries initiative (eLib), undertaken for JISC under contract PROC/0101.

eLib was...
Summative Evaluation of Phases 1 and 2 of the eLib Initiative
Alan Whitelaw, Gill Joy
Mar 28, 2000
This Executive Summary presents high level findings from the ESYS Summative Evaluation of Phases 1 and 2 of the Electronics Libraries initiative (eLib), undertaken for JISC under contract PROC/0101.

eLib was...
Preparing for Data-driven Infrastructure
Max Hammond
Sep 01, 2012
Managing data is a strategic problem for HE institutional managers and a technical problem for IT staff. This report provides an overview of some concepts and pragmatic approaches as well as tools that can help address this...
Institutional repositories, aggregator services and collection development
Philip Hunter, Michael Day
Dec 01, 2005
Institutional repositories are managed collections of the intellectual output of university and other research-based institutions. This report introduces collection development issues from two distinct perspectives. Firstly, it...
JISC I2S2 Project, WP1, Requirements Report (D1.1)
Manjula Patel
Jul 07, 2010
The Infrastructure for Integration in Structural Sciences (I2S2) Project is funded under the Research Data Management Infrastructure strand of the JISC’s Managing Research Data Programme, with a duration of 18 months (Oct 2009...
Augmented Reality for Smartphones
Ben Butchart
Mar 01, 2011
This report should help developers and content publishers who want to take advantage of the
latest developments in smartphone and augmented reality (AR) technology to create novel and exciting new learning experiences. Not...
A study of Curation and Preservation Issues in the eCrystals Data Repository and Proposed Federation, eBank-UK Phase 3
Manjula Patel, Simon Coles
Sep 01, 2007
The JISC funded eBank-UK project (two phases since Sept. 2003) [1], has investigated the linking of primary data to other research outputs, such as published papers, within the scholarly knowledge cycle [2]. Building on the...
Economic implications of different models of publishing scholarly electronic journals for professional societies and other small or specialist publishers
This report aims to address the problems which have beset the academic publishing industry for a number of years, namely, escalating output of journal titles and articles, together with spiralling prices as purchasers (mostly...
Economic implications of different models of publishing scholarly electronic journals for professional societies and other small or specialist publishers
This report aims to address the problems which have beset the academic publishing industry for a number of years, namely, escalating output of journal titles and articles, together with spiralling prices as purchasers (mostly...
Prospects for institutional e-print repositories in the United Kingdom
Michael Day
May 01, 2003
This study introduces ePrints UK, a project funded as part of the JISC's Focus on Access to Institutional Resources (FAIR) Programme. It first introduces the project and the main features of the FAIR programme as it relates to...
A Study of Human Communication Issues In Interactive Scholarly Electronic Journals
This project, conducted between March and July 1997, has explored the changes that are taking place to scholarly communication as it moves into the electronic domain. Evidence has been collected from three studies:

• a...
Beyond eLib
Stephen Pinfield
Mar 06, 2001
This paper attempts to summarise some of the main ‘lessons’ which have emerged from Phase 3 of the JISC-funded Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib). It is primarily a view from the inside of eLib. It incorporates contributions...
References to Ontology Services
Manjula Patel
Feb 01, 2004
This document identifies various activities currently in progress in the area of providing ontology based services as an input to the work of the agentcities working group oncommunication. The descriptions of the services have...
Semantic Interoperability in Digital Library Systems
This report is a state-of-the-art overview of activities and research being undertaken in areas relating to semantic interoperability in digital library systems. It has been undertaken as part of the cluster activity of WP5...
Preparing for Data-driven Infrastructure
Max Hammond
Sep 01, 2012
Managing data is a strategic problem for HE institutional managers and a technical problem for IT staff. This report provides an overview of some concepts and pragmatic approaches as well as tools that can help address this...
Technologies to Support Authentication in Higher Education
A Young, P Kirstein, A Ibbetson
Aug 11, 1996
This report provides a short and limited study, commissioned by JISC, of the technologies available to support authentication, reviews the needs expressed by a set of people contacted for the study, and provides the beginnings...
A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Multi-Media Electronic Journals in Scholarly Discipline
Scholarly practices differ considerably in the way they store, use and disseminate information. It may be hypothesised that they may also differ in their need for electronic journals and these journals may have different effects...
A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Multi-Media Electronic Journals in Scholarly Discipline
Scholarly practices differ considerably in the way they store, use and disseminate information. It may be hypothesised that they may also differ in their need for electronic journals and these journals may have different effects...
Preparing for Effective Adoption and Use of Ebooks in Education
James Clay
Dec 01, 2012
As ebooks become mainstream and the percentage of academic publications delivered as ebooks rises steadily, this report is a primer to help academic librarians, managers and members of faculty prepare for the increasing adoption...
Technologies to Support Authentication in Higher Education
A Young, P Kirstein, A Ibbetson
Aug 11, 1996
This report provides a short and limited study, commissioned by JISC, of the technologies available to support authentication, reviews the needs expressed by a set of people contacted for the study, and provides the beginnings...

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