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The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) promotes the innovative
application and use of information systems and information technology in
Higher and Further education across the UK.
The JISC has published three new documents. These are the draft 3-year
Collection Strategy, the Collections Development Policy and the Final
Report from the JCEI (JISC Committee for Electronic Information) Charging
Working Group
Collection Strategy
The JISC will continue to procure and make available on a subscription
basis a collection of high quality electronic resources of relevance to
learning, teaching, and research in higher and further education. In
addition the JISC will expand its activities to create high quality
electronic resources through digitisation and development of discovery
tools for important collections residing in institutions. The full
document can be read at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections/strategy.htm
Collections Development Policy
This document is the Collections Development Policy for the Distributed
National Electronic Resource (DNER) and covers four key stages in the
lifecycle of DNER collections: identification of potential resources,
their selection as collections, evaluation of the impact of collections,
and resource de-selection or renewal. This policy is a working document
that will change over the next three years as collecting practices for
the DNER develop and as more volatile selection criteria (e.g. agreed
standards) change. The full document is available at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections/coldev_policy.htm
Charging Policy
This is the final report from the Charging Working Group established
by JISC's Committee for Electronic Information (JCEI), to review the
current arrangements for dataset charging and to make recommendations
on a revised charging model, to better suit the needs of small
institutions and FE Colleges. The full document is available at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub01/charging.html
Comments are invited on the Strategy and Development Policy document
by the end of August as detailed in JISC Circular C2/01 C3/01 available
on JISC website.
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Dr Philip Pothen
DNER/RDN Communications Manager,
JISC DNER Office,
King's College London,
Strand Bridge House,
3rd Floor,
138-142 The Strand,
London WC2R 1HH
Tel: 020 7848 2935
Mobile: 07887 564 006
Fax: 020 7848 2939
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