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ACCESS-GRID-HRI To support communication among those participating or with an interest in an AHRC-funded e-Science workshop series, running from 1/10/06 to 31/3/07, to explore the use of the Access Grid for sharing e-resources in advanced research.
ACCESSIBILITY-PASSPORT This list is to provide information, announcements and the opportunity to comment on aspects of the Accessibility Report
AHDS-DISCUSS AHDS-discuss is an open list for projects involved in digitisation. It helps members locate projects working with practices and standards similar to their own; identify existing tools, software that can be shared between projects; get feedback in hardware and software used in data capture; provide advice on getting round particular problems
ANTEQUEERIANS There are contested categories in the history of lgbtq studies involving the extent to which modern concepts may be roled back into history. This list will assemble evidence showing cultural diversity across information spaces but with the intention to enhance theory and practice through building new information processing tools.
ARCHIVES-DISCOVERY-NETWORK This list is to kick-start the development of the UK Archives Discovery Network, through liaison with HE and other public sector archives. The list will be used for development of the supporting framework to which partners will contribute projects.
ARCHIVING2012 This list co-ordinates the activities of those making, using, archiving and preserving digital objects created during the 2012 Olympiad
ARTEL The ARTEL group has been set up to promote increased interdisciplinary research into the design, development, implementation and use of technological learning environments, particularly within Higher Education contexts.
ATHENS-ADVISORY This is a "user" forum established to enable a small group of Athens Domain Administrators from a variety of institutions to discuss any key aspects of the service and provide advice to Athens and JISC.
ATHENSDA A discussion list for organisations that have already or are considering implementing AthensDA.
AX-SNET This list is used by members of AX-SNet to share information and research on archive users and access.
BISA This list is used to facilitate development of a network of Sound Archives within the British Isles, and to discuss matters of common professional interest.
BL-WAFSS Infomation exchange re web archiving between institutions sharing infrastructure
CANCIONEROS This list has been created for the discussion of issues surrounding the electronic publication of Cancioneros. Topics for discussion include, but are not restricted to,transcription of original documents, collation, variation, mss description, etc.
CASPAR-ASSESSMENT This list is used to share and disseminate good practice of the online tool CASPAR. Those wishing to be provided with the free package available from Autumn 2007 should sign up here to receive updates, news and share good practice.
CELLS-PROJECT This list is used by CeLLS Project members to keep in-touch with the CeLLS community in colleges and universities
CETIS-ECSIG The primary aim of this group is to track, evaluate and support the UK FE/HE sectors' uptake and implementation of standards relating to learning content interoperability, in particular the ims content packaging, content management and learning design specifications. the group will also monitor the implementation and development of related specifications produced by agencies such as adl (particularly the scorm), aicc,ieee,cen/isss, ariadne, prometeus. This is a sub-list of IMS
CHAIN This list is for members of the Coalition of Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks (CHAIN) which includes major digital humanities infrastructure projects, planning initiatives and networks. The members of CHAIN have agreed to work together and pool effort in a number of areas to overcome barriers, and to create a shared environment where technology services can interoperate and be sustained, thus enabling new forms of research in the Humanities.
CLARIN-UK Discussion list for the network of UK researchers associated with the pan-European CLARIN project, building an infrastructure for the support of advanced research in the humanities using electronic language resources.
CLINICAL-RECORDINGS For all those interested in using clinical recordings for educational or research purposes. In particular this list supports the work of the JISC-funded CHERRI-PIE project.
DC-LIBRARIES-AP This list is intended to progress work on the development of an Application Profile scoping use of the Dublin Core Element Set within the library domain
DCC-DEVELOPMENT This list will be used by the development team of the Digital Curation Centre
DCC-PEER-REVIEW This list will be used to communicate between members of the DCC and the DCC Curation Manual Peer Review Panel members.
DCOCE-DISC Mailing list for discussion activity regarding the Digital Certificate Operation in a Complex Environment (DCOCE) project based at the University of Oxford.
DEVIL The DEVIL mailing list is used for discussion within the JISC Project DEVIL group at the University of Edinburgh, the Open University, and other interested parties.
DIGGING-INTO-DATA A list for the UK winners of the first phases of the international grant competition, Digging into Data
DIGITAL-PRESERVATION This list is devoted to announcements and information on activities relevant to the preservation of digital materials.
DSPACE A list to facilitate discussion between members of the DSpace UK User group. DSpace is a repository software package adopted by more than a dozen UK HE institutions to support their Institutional Repository.
E-BOOK-BIBACCESS The list is to support discussion of issues associated bibliographic access and legal deposit of e-books.
E-BOOKS-FOR-FE Mailing list, providing information on the e-books for FE Project. The e-books for FE project will deliver: · A robust e-books platform for the delivery of e-books · Significant Core Collections of e-books relevant to the FE curriculum across the UK as taught in FE · JISC Collections’ e-select Framework Agreement to enable FE colleges to build upon the centrally funded Core Collections to allow collection building at a local level, to ensure that every FE college in the UK can provide its students with a highly relevant, usable and accessible digital library.
E-BOOKS-FOR-FE-PROJECT-BOARD Mailing list, for members of the e-books for FE Project Board
E-LEARNING-NORTHWEST This list is owned by the RSC Northwest and is used to advertise eLearning events appropriate to Further and Higher Education, specialist colleges, Work Based Learning Providers and Adult Community Learning across the region
EBOOKCONTACT This list is used to communicate with the institutional contacts that are subscribed to the JISC National E-books Observatory Project
ECRYSTALS-CORE List used by eCrystals Federation core partners to manage the project
EIUS General purpose announcement list for the JISC-funded e-Infrastructure Use Cases and Service Usage Models (eIUS) project.
EPICS This list is used as the primary communication tool for the members of the EPICS regional eportfolios pilot project.
ERES Innovative e-learning with e-resources to enhance the student learning experience. Supporting and encouraging students and academics to use quality e-resources in their learning and teaching.
EULAT Support Lattice Field Theory research and collaboration in Europe
FAM-SW-SCOTLAND A short lived forum to support the implementation of Federated Access Management Shibboleth in the South West Scotland region.
FE-LRC-WALES This list is for practitioners in Further Education Learning Resource Centres in Wales who are supporting e-learning and managing electronic resources. It is maintained by RSC Wales: http://www.rsc-wales.ac.uk/.
FEDORA-UKI This list is for UK & Irish users of the Fedora digital repository software. The UK and Ireland User Group holds occasional meetings etc and the list is primarily intended to support domestic arrangements, not technical queries.
FIL The Forum for Interlending mailing list is a discussion list for members of the Forum for Interlending and is dedicated to all aspects of interlending and document supply.
FOUNDATIONEPORTFOLIO This list is to support the implementation and development of the NHS Foundation electronic portfolio across the United Kingdom.
GEO-LIBS Library services supporting higher education and research in the geological sciences.
HAIRDRESSING Communications for the Hairdressing Training Service at MIMAS and related activities (e.g. the hairdressing training longitudinal study)
HEEPS Higher Education E-Portfolio Scenario Study
HISTORY-DIGITISATION A list concerned with the digitisation of historical material whether as an image or an OCR'd document. This list aims to bring together experts in the field of digitising historical material and academics who have projects in mind.
HONNI-CONSULTATIVE-GROUP This list is used by Queen's University Medical Library to discuss issues related to the development of the Health on the net Northern Ireland (HONNI) website.
IESR-CONTRIBUTORS This list enables communication with, and between, IESR data contributors.
IESR-STAKEHOLDERS This list to enable commnication between stakeholders and the project team of the JISC's Information Environment Service Registry pilot project.
ILT-RESOURCE-SUPPORT A list to enable those working in Resources Centres in FE and HE whose job it is to support ILT developments to share good practice, issues, good ideas and developments
IMS-IMPLEMENTATION This forum will support those implementing IMS learning technology specifications in the HE/FE community, enabling a discussion to achieve a consistent interpretation.
INSTREPMANSCOT Institutional Repository Managers Scotland group aims to share good practice and explore solutions to technical challenges pertaining to the institutional repository.
INTEGRATE-INTUTE The list will enable news announcements and the sharing of information among those who have integrated Intute services and resources into their websites and VLEs.
INTUTE-ARTSANDHUMANITIES Announcement list for Intute: Arts and Humanities, a free online service that promotes the best Web resources for the arts and humanities. Intute: Arts and Humanities is led by Oxford University in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University. It receives support from the JISC and AHRC. See http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/
INTUTE-TECH Forum for internal discussion about Intute technical issues (formerly RDN-tech)
IR ir represents the interests and activities of the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group and the members of CEPIS constituent groups. Information Retrieval (IR) is concerned with enabling people to locate useful information in large, relatively unstructured, computer- accessible archives. Much of IR research is aimed at finding ways to represent the information needs of users and to match these with the contents of an archive. In many cases, those information needs will be best met by locating suitable text documents, but in other cases it may require retrieval of other media, such as video, audio, and images
IRI-SCOTLAND-FOCUS This list is intended to provide a forum for discussion among the project partners concerning IRIScotland focus group activity project
IRISH-STUDIES This is a general discussion forum for Irish studies with an initial focus on the Queen's University Belfast and JSTOR digitization project which will deliver 100 full text journals, 205 full text monographs and 2,500 manuscript images with detailed metadata. The resource will be free in the UK and Ireland. It is anticipated that list members will engage in discussion on the development of further research resources relating to Ireland.
JISC-COLLECTIONS-SUBJECT-GROUPS The JISC Collections Subject Advisory Groups provide advice and guidance to the JISC Collections Team on the suitability of electronic resources in different subject areas.
JISC-DIGITISATION-WORKING-GROUP This list is used by members of the CSR2 working group to communicate and disseminate information within the working group only.
JISC-DRM This list is intended for discussion of issues affecting digital rights management (DRM) in the UK HE and FE communities. This encompasses all aspects of DRM including recognition, assertion, expression, dissemination, exposure and enforcement of rights.
JISC-EL-REPRODUCE This list will be used to distribute information to and between projects funded under the RepRODUCE (Repurposing & Reuse Of Digital University-level Content, and Evaluation) call.
JISC-ISLAMIC-STUDIES A list for projects related to Islamic Studies funded by JISC
JISC-LTINFRA-PROJECTMANAGERS list consisting of JISC programme project managers for communication and discussion.
JISC-METADATA Discussion forum for project members working with metadata (descriptive, structural or preservation) and associated standards. Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to: metadata production, procedures, tools and programming, evaluation et cetera.
JISC-SHIBBOLETH This list is used for general discussion regarding the introduction of a Shibboleth-based authentication and authorisation system within the UK's higher and further education and research communities.
JISC-SHIBBOLETH-ANNOUNCE This list is used for posting announcements regarding the introduction of a Shibboleth-based authentication and authorisation system within the UK's higher and further education and research communities.
JISC-SHIBBOLETH-PUBLISHERS This email list is for announcing and discussing issues regarding federated access management. The intended audience for this list are academic publishers and other service providers that provide a service to UK further and higher education institutions.
JISCDLA This list is used to communicate with the deep log analysis contacts at the institutions subscribed to the JISC National E-books Observatory Project
JISCFAMNEWSLETTER Plain text version of the JISC Federated Access Management Monthly Newsletter.
JSTOR JSTOR is a digital archive of the backruns of a growing number of important scholarly journals. This list is for discussion and information purposes,not for reporting problems as it may not be read by JSTOR.
KULTUR This list is used by those involved in the KULTUR project, including new partners from 1st October 2009, for discussion, exchange of information, and dissemination. KULTUR ran from 31 March 2007 - 31 March 2009 and was funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), under the Start-Up and Enhancement strand of its Repositories and Preservation programme. http://kultur.eprints.org/
LBCNC-CONTACTS This list is designed to encourage sharing of information and ideas among the college contacts from the Land-Based Colleges National Consortium
LEARNEM-ADMIN Private list for discussion between partners in the LearnEm project.
LIBRARY-INDUCTION The group will share resources and ideas concerning the innovative use of technology to aid the induction experience for learners. The group is mainly based around South East Colleges at present but is open to anyone in the UK FE and HE sectors.
LIBRARYLICENSING Announcements and news from the Digital Library Licensing Service
LIS-E-BOOKS The lis-e-books mailing list is used for the discussion of anything related to e-books within the UK academic library community.
LIS-E-RESOURCES An informal open list, set up under the auspices of UKSG, for HE staff and other parties involved with electronic journals to discuss matters relating to e-resource provision, including administration & management, licensing, matters of access, consortia deals etc.
LIS-MMIT CILIP Multimedia Information & Technology Group mailing list.
LIS-SERSOLUK This list is a discussion area for the UK users of the SerialsSolutions service.
LIS-TRAINERS The list is to share best practice and develop new approaches to training. We teach academic, medical, nursing and health-care students
LIS-UKEIG UKeiG, the UK eInformation Group, is a professional body for users and developers of electronic information resources.
LIS-WINCHILL LIS-WinCHILL purpose is to provide a discussion forum for WinCHILL members across the academic, science and health fields.
LIVESANDLETTERS This list is used by CELL to make announcements about research, publications, events, seminars, and studentships
LOCAWARE A list for the discussion, promotion and support of location-aware technologies in education.
MAHARA-UK Mahara UK is for all those interested in the Mahara e-Portfolio. It will disseminate information on developments and events, specifically the annual conference.
MANUSCRIPTS-ONLINE A forum for the discussion, promotion and development of online manuscript research among the professionals, researchers and students collaborating in the field.
MASS-DIGITIZATION This list is for scholars and archivists, etc, interested in the mass digitization of original textual materials, particularly digital photography of medieval manuscripts.
MCSHIB The McShib jiscmail list has been established to support the McShib forum, which is a real-time opportunity (usually a meeting) for persons in Scotland interested in Shibboleth. For queries or comments about Shibboleth in general (outwith the Scottish forum) please post to the national (UK) list at JISC-SHIBBOLETH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
MIMAS-ALL This list is used by Mimas staff to make announcements related to Mimas services and projects to members of UK further and higher education.
MIMAS-ZETOC For all aspects of the Zetoc service providing access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC). The service is hosted and supported by Mimas, The University of Manchester.
MIRROR-USERS The UK Mirror Service offers a vast collection of freely available electronic items of interest to academia. This open list is a discussion/feedback forum for users. The service's news bulletin "The Looking Glass" is posted here as well as other important service announcements.
MLANEWS News and information from Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) News and information from Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)
MMIT-COMMITTEE To be used in order that the National Committee of the MultiMedia and Information Technology (a sub-group of Cilip) can communicate and exchange documentation amongst committee members,
MOODLE-FE Mailing list to support the development of Moodle in the UK Further Education sector.
MYWORLD This list is used by the myWORLD project team for sharing information related to the management and implementation of the project.
NHS-HE-FORUM Description: This list is to support the communication between members of the NHS-HE Forum. This Forum meets twice a year to discuss initiatives to improve the connectivity and inter-operability of electronic services supporting students and staff at Universities and in the NHS that are involved in education and research associated with medicine, dentistry, nursing and other professions allied to medicine .
NHS-SAML-ANNOUNCE The Open Standards Simplified Sign-on Project is to define a roadmap for NHSEngland access management to gated e-resources such as e-journals and knowledge bases. The Project reports to the Technical Design Authority Group set up by the National Library for Health now part of NHS Evidence. #
NI-FOI To establish an electronic forum to assist FE/HEI's in Northern Ireland comply with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act. This forum will enable the exchange of ideas and solutions to the issues surrounding the implementations of the requirements of the FoI Act.
NLH-GASTRO-LIVER This list is used by the project team of the NLH Gastroenterology & Liver Diseases Specialist Library to keep subscribers up to date with new developments and evidence-based publications in gastroenterology and hepatology
NLH-NEUROLOGICAL This list is used by the NHS Evidence - neurological conditions project team to send out information about the latest additions to the site
PUBLIC-HEALTH-IN-TRUSTS An open mailing list for discussion about developing the Public Health function in Acute, Community and Primary Care Provider Organisations with particular reference to the Clinical Governance, Information for Health and Saving Lives agendas.
RACHEL The group using this maillist is involved in a general discussion that builds upon the initial e-portfolio desk research work by JISC for a pilot, evaluation and recommendation of an appropriate e-portfolio system to support PDP across HE and FE.
RG-EMC-ANNOUNCE A non-discussion list which will keep you informed about the Resource Guide for Engineering, Mathematics and Computing.
RSC-EMMANAGERSDIGEST email newsletter for managers in FE providing headline news with links re elearning initiatives and resources.
RSC-SE-KENTLIBRARIES This list is open to all FE LRC and library staff working in Kent and Medway to support training in the effective use of ILT and related current issues
RSCWM-LR The list is intended for college learning resources managers, librarians and their teams. It will be used to disseminate information about relevant RSC West Midlands events and JISC resources/initiatives. Members are also welcome to use it as a general forum on learning resource matters.
SARONGS-DISCUSS This is a discussion list for SARoNGS - Shibboleth Access for Resources on the National Grid Service - a project to provide access to the National Grid Service for users from the UK Access Management Federation with Virtual Organisation management.
SCAIPR The SCA (Strategic Content Alliance ) Intellectual Property Rights email list will be for discussing updates on events and news, promoting discussion on IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) issues and creating a community of practice in this area.
SESDL Scottish Electronic Staff Development Library This SHEFC-funded project is producing a library of staff development resources particularly, but not exclusively, relating to the use of C&IT in teaching and learning. Its base is all Scottish HEIs but participation from farther afield is welcomed.
SMARTCARDS This list is about smartcard systems and their uses in HE/FE education. The group explores best pratice, technology and value for money. The group is not limited to tangible card systems as RFID, biometrics, IP, PIN and the cost benefit of systems and the issues of cash (and its cost) will be explored. Members will normally be existing or potential users of smartcards.
SPIE The SPIE list disseminates information about the JISC-funded Shibboleth-aware Portals and Information Environments Project.
STEEPLE The Steeple projects are JISC funded UK Higher Education community projects. It seeks to investigate, develop, and document sustainable institutional infrastructure to support #university wide educational audio/video processing and podcasting.
SUPPORTIVE-AND-PALLIATIVE-CARE-EVIDENCE A forum for those involved in improving access to the best available evidence in supportive and palliative care. Users include academics, researchers, managers, health and social care practitioners in hospitals, hospices, specialist palliative care units and elsewhere in the voluntary, NHS, university and private sectors, plus administrative, library and IT professionals and others. A broad-based community of practice of individuals and groups engaged in online information provision and use in this field, both elsewhere in the UK and internationally.
SURVEY-RESOURCES-NETWORK News list for the Survey Resources Network (SRN), promoting workshops, seminars, training opportunities, resources, publications, services etc. The SRN is a new service funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to co-ordinate and develop ESRC activities related to survey research methods.
TAXONOMY A list for researchers and practitioners engaged in the development of corporate taxonomies.
TETRAELF-ALL General non-technical list for Tetra Collaboration. All interested parties should subscribe. Technical discussions will take place elsewhere: tetraelf-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
UKEIG-INTRANETS-FORUM This is a mail list for UKeiG members to exchange information within the field of Intranets. UK e Information Group is a Special Interest Group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. UKeiG is a respected and well-established body for all information professionals, users and developers of electronic information resources. We promote and advance the effective exploitation and management of electronic information in all formats. UKeiG has ndividual and corporate members across all key UK sectors: government, legal, business and commerce, science, technology and healthcare, higher and further education, and the public sector.
UKNA This list will be used to provide the main communication mechansism between the Steering Group of a DPC project and the successful consultant.
USAGE An email discussion forum for on vender based online usage statistics for all interested vendors and librarians.
VIF This list is used by the members of the VIF Project Steering Committee to communicate with each other about the project.
VIF-NEWSLETTER This list is for disemmination of News about the JISC-funded VIF project (www.lse.ac.uk/library/vif)
VLE-INTEREST An open list discussing the development and use of VLEs in every sector of education in the UK
VOCAB-HE For the development of controlled vocabularies, thesauri & classification schemes in UK HE staff development, and teaching and learning. To promote cooperation between those developingsuch tools for searching and browsing their web-based resources. Anyone with an interest may join.
WM-SHAREDCONTENT This is an announcement and discussion list to support the JISC-funded project Promoting Shared Use of Digital Content across the West Midlands
WMENTREPRENEURSHIP The list follows on from a workshop to discuss opportunities for research into entrepreneurship in the West Midlands, and for enterprise education. The purpose of the list is to enable fruitful follow-on dialogue between the attendees.
