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“GOING GLOBAL”: JISC IN THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA Reg Carr

“GOING GLOBAL”: JISC IN THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA Reg Carr JISC/CNI Conference, Stratford, June 2000. Supporting Higher and Further Education. THE UK HE INTERNATIONAL AGENDA.

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“GOING GLOBAL”: JISC IN THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA Reg Carr

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  1. “GOING GLOBAL”: JISC IN THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA Reg Carr JISC/CNI Conference, Stratford, June 2000 Supporting Higher and Further Education

  2. THE UK HE INTERNATIONAL AGENDA “Contributing to the healthy development of higher education in this country and overseas, by learning from international experience, and by helping to promote the reputation and competitiveness of UK higher education abroad” (HEFCE strategic aim)

  3. Supporting national outreach ‘Selling’ UK HE in the global marketplace Overseas student recruitment/student mobility Enabling collaborative research Benefits of globalised information Sharing costs of research and development THE UK HE INTERNATIONAL AGENDA:KEY ISSUES AND DRIVERS

  4. THE JISC: ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT HE Institutions Support& Services JISC Support&Services FE Institutions 5 Sub-Committees Networking ElectronicInformation Authentication& Security Awareness,Liaison &Training IntegratedEnvironmentsfor Learners

  5. JISC: MISSION “To stimulate and enable the cost-effective exploitation of information systems, and to provide a high quality national network infrastructure for the UK higher education, further education and research councils communities”

  6. JISC INTERNATIONAL:ACTIVITY TYPES • Promoting UK know-how • Making common cause • Formal programmes and alliances • Developing standards/interoperability • Buying in content (for the DNER)

  7. JISC INTERNATIONAL:PROMOTING UK KNOW-HOW • Web-site/publications • Conferences & visits (Australia, Canada, Europe, US) • Official delegations (Morocco, China) • Playing host...

  8. JISC INTERNATIONAL:MAKING COMMON CAUSE • Tempe Principles • SPARC • UKOLN links to Europe • Coalition for Networked Information • DLF...

  9. National Science Foundation Internet 2 eLib/DNER Research Libraries Group iParadigms DANTE JISC INTERNATIONAL: FORMAL PROGRAMMES & ALLIANCES

  10. JISC INTERNATIONAL:DEVELOPING STANDARDS & INTEROPERABILITY • Dublin Core (UKOLN) • Technology Watch • Terena • IMS Global • Interoperability Focus (CIMI, DOI, Europe) • OAIS (CEDARS)

  11. JISC INTERNATIONAL:BUYING IN CONTENT (FOR THE DNER) • ISI/Web of Science • JSTOR • NESLI • OCLC • AMICO...

  12. Network development Information strategies Standards Interoperability Authentication Plagiarism Content acquisition Subject gateways Metadata/resource discovery Cross-domain searching ePrint archives Electronic journals Digital archiving Scholarly comms. JISC INTERNATIONAL:OVERVIEW OF TOPICS COVERED

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