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ADS-DEP  
This is a list to allow the Archaeology Data Service (mandated AHRC Digital Archive for Archaeology) at the Department of Archaeology, University of York to contact their depositors only, rather than all users - c.80% UK HE

AHRCDIGITALTRANSFORMATIONS  
A focused email list for holders of awards in the AHRC's Digital Transformations programme, so that we can share information.

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.

AR-DISCUSS  
This list is used to make announcements from Jisc to the FE /HE community surrounding the use of Immersive Technology including Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) and its usefulness in education, and share information surrounding forthcoming events, training and workshops.

ARAN  
To enable action researchers in the UK to learn from African researchers about Ubuntu as a way of being as they explore multi-media narratives for representing their action research studies.

ARCHIVES-HUB-USERS  
This list is used to disseminate information about the Archives Hub service to its user community

ASSEMBLAGE  
Assemblage is an internationally recognised, peer-reviewed journal of archaeology, ISSN 1365-3881. assemblage is a volunteer-run publication, produced by postgraduates within the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield.

AURA  
AURA (Archives in the UK/ Republic of Ireland & AI): AHRC/ IRC Digital Humanities Research Network: Bringing together Digital Humanists, Computer Scientists & stakeholders to unlock cultural assets.

BEDERNGROUP  
This is for communication between members of the 'Bedern Group' concerned with harmonising practice and exchange between UK cultural heritage focused digital archives.

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.

BLACKBOARDFE  
This list is open to any Further Education establishment that operate a Blackboard VLE environment. This is also open to 6th forms and Training Providers, that are not HE establishments, that use Blackboard.

BOB-NATIONAL-ADMIN  
This list brings together administrators at user institutions of the BoB National online shared service. It is a space for discussion and development ideas. For more information see http://bobnational.net

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.

CIAG-INFRASTRUCTURE  
To provide a forum for the college sector in Scotland to consider technical infrastructure, ICT systems, networks and authentication system requirements in relation to the SOB strategic plan and McClelland review.

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.

DIGIMAR  
The Digimar mailing list is to be used for the discussion of the furthering of digital development among Marine Science Libraries.

DIGITAL-PRESERVATION  
This list is devoted to announcements and information on activities relevant to the preservation of digital materials. Digital Preservation is international in scope and the list has members in over 30 countries worldwide. Postings cover all relevant sectors including libraries, research data centres and services, archives, museums, publishing, and related fields. This Super-list posts to the following sub-lists: DIGITAL-PRESERVATION-IPRES and DIGITAL- PRESERVATION-NATLAM.

DSPACE  
A list to facilitate discussion between members of the DSpace UK & Ireland User group. DSpace is a repository software package adopted by more than a dozen UK & Irish HE institutions to support their Institutional Repository.

E-BOOKS-FOR-FE  
Mailing list, providing information on Jisc's e-books for FE service The e-books for FE service delivers: · 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 learners with a highly relevant, usable and accessible digital library.

EDINBURGH-PRESERVES  
This list publicises local events in the Edinburgh area on the subject of digital preservation, and provides a channel through which professionals can communicate and collaborate to address practical issues they face in preserving their cultural and historical collections.

ELECTRONICTRANSCRIPTS  
Development in electronic transcripts,including technical development, best practice, links to other HE projects and any issues raised by the initiation of electronic transcripts.

ETHMIGSURVEYDATA-ALL  
This is the generic communication list of the COST Action ETHMIGSURVEYDATA, which includes all members of the network from all workgroups regardless of whether also in the Management Committee or not. The list homepage is available at www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ETHMIGSURVEYDATA-ALL The email address for the list is ETHMIGSURVEYDATA-ALL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Any emails sent to this address will be distributed to all subscribers of the list. Any replies sent to an email coming to the list will be sent to the whole list of subscribers.

EYCONPROJECT  
The Early Conflict Photography 1890-1918 and Visual AI (EyCon) project aims at harnessing AI-reliant tools to analyse a large corpus of photographs, to create an open-access database. The project is partnering with a network of archival institutions in France and in the UK. The project is co-funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council/Labex Passés dans le Présent joint grant in a partnership with a Université de Paris Idex “chaire environnée”.

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.

FEANDSKILLSCONTENT  
This list is used to update all Jisc members in the further education and skills sector of any changes or potential changes to digital content provision. The group is also used as a forum for sharing good practice between members.

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.

FORUMFORINTERLENDING  
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.

GEO-LIBS  
Library services supporting higher education and research in the geological sciences.

GLAMLABS  
The community mailing list for setting up, maintaining and sustaining Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums' cultural heritage innovation Labs.

GOOGLE-APPS  
In light of the specific Sector Agreement negotiated by Janet, this list is for the community to discuss Google Apps for Education and share experiences. Membership of this list includes the UK research and education community and persons from Google.

HAIRDRESSING  
Communications for the Hairdressing Training Service at Jisc, which will include content updates, new projects and tips and techniques for those who teach or are studying Barbering and Hairdressing levels 1-3.

HEI-EATS-USER-GROUP  
Group of HEIs using the Engage ATS E-Recruitment system

HISTORICALTEXTS  
This list keeps you up-to-date with the latest news, developments and events for the Jisc-funded Historical Texts service.

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.

INSTREPMANSCOT  
Institutional Repository Managers Scotland group aims to share good practice and explore solutions to technical challenges pertaining to the institutional repository.

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

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-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-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. <HTML> 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. </HTML>

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-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.

JISCMEDIAHUB  
This list is used by JISC MediaHub Advisory Board members to discuss requirements and future developments to the JISC MediaHub platform.

JISCMEDIAHUB  
This list is used by JISC MediaHub Advisory Board members to discuss requirements and future developments to the JISC MediaHub platform.

JOURNALARCHIVES  
This list keeps you up-to-date with the latest news, developments and events for the Jisc-funded Journal Archives service.

KITCATALOGUE  
This list is used by the Kit-Catalogue project to communicate with its community of users, contributors and developers around the UK.

KULTUR  
This list was used by those involved in the Kultur project, however from 1st October 2009 the Kultur partners have been expanding into a Kultur II Group consisting of specialist creative arts institutions, departments within larger multidisciplinary institutions, and researchers in the UK. The group welcomes repository managers, technical staff, academics, researchers, and research office staff. 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/ Future projects and activities of the Kultur II Group are available here: http://www.vads.ac.uk/kultur2group/projects/index.html

LBCNC-CONTACTS  
This list is designed to encourage sharing of information and ideas among the college contacts from the Land-Based Colleges National Consortium

LIB-STATS  
Welcome to Lib-Stats. The list hopes to foster a greater understanding of usage statistics generated from electronic services such as databases, e-journals and e-books.

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 framework agreement

LIS-ACCESSIBILITY  
This is a list for anybody who is involved in the procurement and creation of accessible material formats in an educational environment.

LIS-CLA-DCS  
This mailing list is for users of the Copyright Licensing Agency's DCS #(Digital Content Store) product.

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  
UKSG exists to connect the information community and encourage the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication. It is the only organisation spanning the wide range of interests and activities across the scholarly information community of librarians, publishers, intermediaries and technology vendors. Lis-e-resources is our informal, open discussion list, and provides a forum for discussion of matters relating to the provision, administration, management, licensing and access of scholarly information.

LIS-MMIT  
CILIP Multimedia Information & Technology Group mailing list.

LIS-OPENATHENSLA  
This list has been retained 22/10/2021 no one can subscribe to this list and no one can post to this list. Contact help@jisc.ac.uk for all enquiries regarding this list This list is a discussion area for users of OpenAthens LA from Eduserv. This is a community list, and is not run by Eduserv.

LIS-PERL  
A closed discussion list for E-resource licensing for overseas campuses and partnerships. The list provides a forum for those negotiating e-resource licences for their overseas campuses or other partnerships. Through collaborative working,it is hoped that we can influence publishers and providers to streamline e=resource negotiations, licensing and payments, in order to make subscribed resources available to overseas campus students and collaborative partners.This would include any other related issues in making the information available to partnerships students, such as how the information is made available in terms of IT and authentication systems, in addition to any other support issues <HTML> A closed discussion list for E-resource licensing for overseas campuses and partnerships. The list provides a forum for those negotiating e-resource licences for their overseas campuses or other partnerships. Through collaborative working,it is hoped that we can influence publishers and providers to streamline e=resource negotiations, licensing and payments, in order to make subscribed resources available to overseas campus students and collaborative partners.This would include any other related issues in making the information available to partnerships students, such as how the information is made available in terms of IT and authentication systems, in addition to any other support issues </HTML>

LIS-REFWORKS-UK  
This list is an open forum for discussion of issues relating to the use of RefWorks reference management software by educational institutions based in the UK. Topics discussed will include technical configuration, administration, user-support, training, marketing and advocacy. Membership is open to all, but will be most useful to librarians in UK Higher Education.

LIS-SERSOLUK  
This list is a discussion area for users of the SerialsSolutions service in Ireland and the UK.

LIS-STANDS  
------26/10/20 RETAIN LIST------ This list has been retained 12/09/2022 no one can subscribe to this list and no one can post to this list. Contact help@jisc.ac.uk for all enquiries regarding this list 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 (a special interest group of CILIP), is a professional body for users and developers of electronic information resources. UKeiG welcomes its members to the list.

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

MELSIG  
For educators interested in the use of digital and social media for learning in F/HE @melsiguk

MICROSOFT-365  
In light of the specific Sector Agreement negotiated by Janet, this list is for the community to discuss Microsoft Office 365 and share experiences. Membership of this list includes the UK research and education community and persons from Microsoft. This is a sub-list of OFFICE365-MANAGERS.

MMIT-COMMITTEE  
To be used in order that the Committee of MmIT (the MultiMedia and Information Technology Group) - a sub-group of Cilip - can communicate and exchange documentation amongst Committee members.

MOOCS-UK  
UK based discussion group to share research and news around the use of Massively Open Online Courses (Moocs)

MOODLE-FE  
Mailing list to support the development of Moodle in the UK Further Education sector.

NASSS-CAT-COMMUNITY  
The NASSS-CAT Community represents a user community for the NASSS-CAT tool (Non-adoption, Abandonment, and barriers to Spread, Scale-up and Sustainability - Complexity Assessment Tool), during a technology-supported change 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 .

OATS-SIG  
<HTML> This list is for discussion about the use and development of open source assistive technology software. This is the "Open Source Assistive Technology Software Special Interest Group" (OATS-SIG) list, the list was previously hosted by Becta and is now hosted by JISC TechDis on JISCMAIL. This list emerged from the OATS project (<a href="http://www.oatsoft.org"> oatsoft.org</a>). <p/> JISC TechDis is a JISC Advance Service which promotes the use and research of Open Source Assistive Technologies and those supporting users. <p> Subscribers to this list will also receive messages posted to www.jiscmail.ac.uk/Techdis- news </p> </HTML>

OPENATHENS  
<HTML> A discussion list for OpenAthens customers. <p>This list is intended to enable OpenAthens customers to talk directly to each other. It should not be used by customers to report service-affecting issues - that can only be done by logging a support ticket with the <a href="https://www.openathens.net/support.php"target="_blank">OpenAthens Service Desk</a> </p> <p>To check the OpenAthens service status, visit <a href="http://status.openathens.net"target="_blank">status.openathens.net</a></p> </html>

ORIOLE  
This list focuses on sharing understanding of the influence of Open Resource use in higher education (HE), but also is interested in sharing, reuse and remixing of open content and practice across education more broadly. The emphasis here is particularly on identifying, sharing, exploring and comparing examples of OER research and findings from these. However, although the primary interest of this list is in open resource or open practice activity, research which has a broader remit which informs open resource research is also welcome, for example research into reuse of learning objects. Initial list membership was derived from the ORIOLE project but new members are also welcome. This list is also being used during Open Ed 2012 as a way of engaging with the Remixathon of the original ORIOLE survey (2011). However you came to this list we hope that we can share interests and inform future research. If you are not already a member of the more general OER-Discuss list it is suggested that you join that too.

PRESERVINGCOMMUNITYARCHIVES  
Identity, Representation and Preservation in Community Digital Archives and Collections is a 12 month project funded by a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (2018) held by Dr. Sharon Webb (Principal Investigator). It is an intervention in three important areas; community archives, digital preservation and content representation. As communities take charge of their heritage, and create their own digital archives, the long-term viability and sustainability of these increasingly important collections, is uncertain. LGBTQ+ communities, feminist networks, black communities, among other marginalised groups, use digital technology to ensure representation and to protect against future erasure from the historical record. However, these representations are at risk of loss because of the fragility of digital archives and their associated infrastructures, both the human infrastructures (i.e. volunteers) and the digital infrastructures. This project asks what are the implications of a community-driven approach to long-term sustainability of these materials, and how might we support community archives without removing their agency. # The programme of work, will bridge the gap between community archives and the individuals and institutions with the means to provide (digital) infrastructural advice and support. It acknowledges and recognizes the autonomy of communities seeking to capture their own narratives as digital archives; and does not seek to intervene in the process of community collection; instead, it explores how communities might be supported in the long-term; and along the way asks how we can link them to academic research infrastructures.

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.

PUREUK  
Email list for Atira Pure UK User Group

QLEXAMSUSERGROUP  
A UK-wide user group for the Unit 4 QL Exams Module in the Further Education community.

RESEARCHNOTEBOOKS  
This list is for discussion about managing research notebooks particularly to use of IT tools or research notebooks.

ROAMING  
Description: A forum for the discussion and development of a roaming solution for public sector participants building from the eduroam experience in educations and research.

SCAAFFILIATE  
This list has been retained 30/07/20 no one can subscribe to this list and no one can post to this list. Contact help@jisc.ac.uk for all enquiries regarding this list This list is for the 10 affiliate mebers of the SCA, so that they can be kept regularly updated and informed of SCA affivities and products. This group will also act as an information sharing forum between all of the partners.

SCAIPR  
This list has been retained 30/07/20 no one can subscribe to this list and no one can post to this list. Contact help@jisc.ac.uk for all enquiries regarding this list 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.

SCURLCOPYRIGHTLEGAL  
Sharing best practice on legal issues in the educational environment

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.

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.

TDM-RS  
For research support staff working with researchers in Text and Data Mining. Focus is on legal aspects, tools, and storage of data for TDM research.

TRANSFER  
The NISO Code of Practice for journal transfers is a Recommended Practice covering journal transfers. An important part of the Code is timely communication to libraries of journal transfers by publishers. The Transfer Alerting Service - https://journaltransfer.issn.org - is where publishers post notices of transfers and it is also a database of all the transfer notices posted by publishers - it can be searched and there is an RSS feed. Notifications of transfers are automatically posted to this list by the Transfer Alerting Service.

TUNES-RESEARCH  
To connect researchers working on the study of persistence, recurrence, transmission and transformation of tunes, especially in (but not confined to) traditional and popular culture. Historical, comparative, ethnographic, computational, archival approaches welcome. International, inter- and intra-cultural perspectives welcome. Open to all bona fide researchers with relevant interests.

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 individual 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.

UKSG-OUTREACH  
A discussion list for the Outreach & Engagement Sub-Committee of the UKSG comprising librarians, publishers and UKSG staff.

UNITOPIA  
UniTopia is an experiment in knowledge production, an open seminar series exploring universities past present and future.

VLE-INTEREST  
An open list discussing the development and use of VLEs in every sector of education in the UK

ZETOC  
Important Announcement: Following a review of Zetoc, Jisc have retired the service as of 1 August 2022. We would like to thank all users for your support and loyalty over the years. This list has been retained 05/08/2022 no one can subscribe to this list and no one can post to this list. Contact help@jisc.ac.uk for all enquiries regarding this list