JISC RSC YH Exchange News

Budding historians are set to benefit from a new online project which will revolutionise the way we search for historical sources on the internet, thanks to a £198,977 cash boost from JISC.
The ‘Connected Histories’ project, which is a partnership between the Universities of Sheffield and Hertfordshire, the Institute of Historical Research, and King’s College London, will create [...]

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The Power of the VHS
A BUFVC one-day meeting
9 December 2009
bfi Southbank
The humble VHS is, rightly, regarded as a disposable commodity and not an archive medium, but the recordings on these cassettes are sometimes unique and irreplaceable. Since 1989 UK Universities and Colleges have created sizeable collections of valuable recordings on VHS. Today however many universities [...]

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The New York Times has reported that as of 24/09/09, the Settlement was officially withdrawn from the New York court where it was being decided.
Whilst the settlement may be withdrawn from the time being, issues that it has raised may be reinvigorated in the future, therefore JISC continues to be very keen to gather views [...]

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The hand-written annotations Charles Darwin made on 700 of the books in his personal library were painstakingly transcribed in the 1980s.
Now, thanks to high-resolution digital imagery and an international partnership, Darwin’s marginalia will be digitally married to the texts they illuminate, allowing scholars to learn his thoughts on a wide range of topics.
The partnership is [...]

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Rare, unpublished and previously unavailable recordings have been launched online thanks to JISC funding for the British Library’s archival sound recordings project.
28,000 recordings covering 2,000 hours of sound are now online at http://sounds.bl.uk as part of JISC’s digitisation programme, which has invested over £22 million in making available a wide range of heritage and
scholarly resources [...]

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Two of the oldest known copies of the Qur’an are now available to researchers and scholars across the world as part of a major project to digitise one of the richest collections of Eastern manuscripts.
The two Qur’ans, one of which may date from the 7th century A.D, are part of the priceless Mingana Collection, which is housed by the [...]

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The JISC-funded A Vision of Britain Through Time website launches today, giving access, often for the first time, to over two centuries’ worth of facts, figures, surveys, maps, election results and travel writing showing how 15,000 UK places have changed.
The changing story of Britain’s towns and villages can be explored in new depth online, which unites more than 200 [...]

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The world’s largest digital library of 18th century printed books grows even larger for UK academic community
Following an agreement between JISC Collections and Gale, part of Cengage Learning, Part 2 of the ambitious digitisation project, Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), is now available free of charge to all UK academic institutions currently subscribing to ECCO.
With [...]

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Two million online digitised pages of 19th century newspaper, take researchers back to the future.
The British Library, in partnership with JISC and Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has today launched the public version of its 19th century British Library Newspaper website.
Bathing machines, children as young as nine smoking and drinking, Vesta Tilley – London’s very [...]

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The JISC invites proposals to undertake a feasibility study on the potential for digitising and curation collections of cultural or social worth from the general public.
Funding of up to £30,000 (including VAT, travel and subsistence) is available for this study.  The work should start no later than the 1st June 2009 and be complete by [...]

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