Updates from Services

An international conference audience, including leading names in digital storytelling, heard about Netskills' storytelling approach to project communications in Turkey this month.

Netskills has released free guides to help Blackboard Collaborate users make the most of the online collaboration platform.

This new agreement enables students, staff and researchers at institutions across the UK to benefit from a faster and more secure connection when using their institution’s cloud-based IT services.

Three new guidance papers on handling vexatious, manifestly unreasonable, and repeat requests in an FOI and EIR context have been published by the ICO.

The IPO is holding an open meeting to discuss draft WIPO copyright treaty proposals that aim to harmonise copyright exceptions for visually impaired people.

A new Intellectual Property Bill proposes changes to the UK's intellectual property regime.

This report examines whether the Lambert Toolkit which includes model agreements for collaborative research has been of benefit to UK universities and their industry partners.

The Content Map is a new website designed to help users find legal sources for films and tv, ebooks, music, games and sports coverage.

Over the past few weeks our team have been thinking through how we can communicate our resources more effectively through various channels. The thing is we don’t really have a handle on what works best at the moment so to begin with we’ve settled on using those channels which are already well established across the [...]

This spring and summer, Netskills staff are talking about the benefits of digital storytelling for project dissemination and teaching & learning at three conferences.

Four free workshops are taking place this summer to help staff in education and research address professional development needs in external engagement aspects of their roles.

Project teams from across Jisc came together for two lively workshops last month, considering the use of digital storytelling for project dissemination.

One of the underlying principles we’ve adopted in managing content on the website is that of ‘publish early, publish often’. This is adopted from agile methods commonly used for software development and project management. Essentially, this approach allows us to publish our resources as soon as they are ready with the main aim of receiving [...]

Working at the vanguard of open innovation and enabling access to valuable resources, 11 project teams came together in York last month to showcase progress and share knowledge.

The environment in which you operate, whether that’s as an organisation or an individual, is changing. No matter what sector you’re from, what level in an organisation you work at, or how successful your organisation is, you simply can’t escape it. You can, however, approach change proactively, or as ‘The SUMO Guy’ summarises, “Carpe Diem” [...]