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New research conducted by Ipsos MORI shows how academic library and IT services are budgeting for today’s economic conditions, but are in need of help to scenario plan for the long term impact of the recession.
‘The impact of the economic recession on university library and IT services’ report, commissioned by JISC, SCONUL and UCISA, contains [...]

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The Strategic Content Alliance is delighted to announce a series of FREE IPR and Licensing workshops over the Autumn in London, aimed at policy makers and practitioners involved in the delivery of online content and services over the internet.
These practical workshops, hosted by Professor Charles Oppenheim and Emma Beer, are designed to appeal anyone involved [...]

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International case studies reveal innovative strategies for financing digital resources in the non-profit sector
Tens of millions of dollars, pounds and euros are invested each year by government agencies and private foundations to develop and support digital resources in the not-for–profit sector.
As institutional budgets tighten, will these digital resources be able to survive and thrive?  A new study, released today [...]

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The Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) and JISC are running a FREE workshop exploring Business modelling/ Sustainability challenges and solutions for the long-term sustainability of grant-funded digital resources.
These workshops also offer delegates the opportunity to make the most out of their collections and archives using a range of free tools and digital strategies created by the [...]

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The Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) is running a FREE workshop introducing simple and inexpensive Audience Analysis techniques so that your content or collection is visible to a target user group and can deliver services which provide the maximum public value.
These workshops also offer delegates the opportunity to make the most out of their collections and [...]

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Access to over 50 million items held in trust by publicly funded agencies such as libraries, museums, archives and universities are being prevented from being available online due to current copyright laws.
‘In from the Cold’, a report by the Strategic Content Alliance and the Collections Trust, shows that millions of so-called ‘orphan works’ - photographs, recordings, texts and other [...]

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The Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) and JISC are hosting a FREE introducing simple and inexpensive Web 2.0 techniques and technologies which can be harnessed to promote and encourage access to your online content.
These workshops also offer delegates the opportunity to make the most out of their collections and archives using a range of free tools [...]

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The free Ithaka/Strategic Content Alliance joint-workshop takes place on Wednesday 25 March 2009, led by Ithaka’s president, Kevin Guthrie.
The workshop will explore Ithaka’s recent project Case Studies in Sustainability, which explores the wide range of sustainability strategies that leaders of digital projects are employing today through a series of eleven in-depth case studies drawn from [...]

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The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), on behalf of the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA), invites tenders to develop a web based knowledge base which will provide insightful analysis and good narrative copy for practitioners and policy makers on the e-content life-cycle.
This will require design, synthesis of existing documentation, editorial and development of a suite of [...]

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The Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) are holding a Peer-Reviewing Workshop on 14 November 2008 between 12.30pm and 4.30pm at the HEFCE offices on the 12th floor of the Centre Point building, 101-103 New Oxford Street, London, WC1A 1DD http://www.hefce.ac.uk/aboutus/findus/london/map.htm.
This event will be focusing on peer-reviewing the ‘SCA Audience Toolkit’ http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/?s=AUDIENCE+ANALYSIS and Case Studies. Further information [...]

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