Access the BBC's rich archive of moving images with the BBC Motion Gallery

For the first time the BBC's archive of moving images is available online from the BBC Motion Gallery. Over 30,000 clips are available, spanning 70 years, which are ready for download for educational use.

This resource is useful for a variety of subject and course areas including agriculuture, area studies, biology, business studies, built environment, chemistry, cultural studies, defence studies, earth science, education studies, engineering, environmental science, health sciences, history, journalism, leisure and tourism, media production, media studies, medicine, natural history, physical sciences, politics, sociology, sports studies, technology, visual arts, war and zoology.

Further details can be found here.

Exploring Islamic Studies - new online resource is available

Oxford Islamic Studies Online is an resource which brings together the best current scholarship in the field, and promotes accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world. It contains more than 3,000 reference articles, and covers subjects such as global Islamic history, people, politics, faith, concepts, tenets and practices, and culture. This is a reference resource covering all aspects of Islamic Studies and is suitable for both further and higher education.

Further details can be found here.

Capturing key events of the 19th century

Purchase of the 19th Century UK Periodicals Online, Series 1 content by JISC brings material from the 19th century to the widest possible audience in UK further and higher education, as institutions will not have to invest in the content themselves but can gain access to the content via the publisher’s servers by paying an annual hosting fee. This will allow them to take advantage of the search interface developed for the 19th Century UK Periodicals Online, Series 1.

19th Century Periodicals Online, Series 1 captures an important period of British history as it focuses on the birth of modern magazine publishing in the United Kingdom between 1800 and 1900; the rise of children’s entertainment and education; and increasing interest in popular sports and hobbies, with nearly 100 titles and 1.2 million pages selected by an academic editorial board.

This is an invaluable resource for history academics and students studying social change in Britain and its effect around the world. Those studying and researching in the fields of literature, historical geography, philosophy, religion, cultural studies, economic and legal history, history of art and the history of science, medicine and technology will also find the resource of value.

Further details can be found here.

Internet Archaeology: creating an Open Access success story

New JISC Collections agreement makes the current issues of Internet Archaeology free of charge to universities and colleges in the UK

Internet Archaeology was established in 1996 with funding until July 2001 from the JISC eLib programme. Innovative since its inception, it was the first refereed online e-journal in archaeology and has been very successful in gaining international recognition as a high-quality academic journal. In the UK it is fully recognised for RAE purposes and forms an integral part of archaeological teaching and research. Now in its 22nd volume, Internet Archaeology attracts a continuous stream of offers of high-quality research papers.

Internet Archaeology 2008-2009: Open Access for UK HE and FE

Two year funding from JISC Collections will help Internet Archaeology with the transition to Open Access. The funding for the period from 1st January 2007 to 31st December 2009 enables free access, from January 2008, (to issues 22-25 of the journal) to the growing number of universities and colleges that teach archaeology, as well as extending usage of the journal to a much wider range of disciplines (for example history, history of art, creative and performing arts, geography, biological and earth sciences). Internet Archaeology will also be of interest to those in information science and librarianship disciplines and to users in the further education sector. Institutions will need to complete a sub-licence in order to access the journal.

Further details can be found here.

JIBS/Ebsco enhancement group

The minutes of the first JIBS/Ebsco enhancement group are now available on the JIBS web site at http://www.jibs.ac.uk/resources/EBSCO/

Ovid Gateway transfer date

http://resourcecenter.ovidsp.com/

The OvidSP Resource Center is your destination for all supporting materials and information.


To ensure that customers in every global region will have access to OvidSP on the morning of Monday, February 4th, 2008, all Ovid Gateway customers will be automatically directed to OvidSP on Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 3:30pm EST (8:30pm GMT).

The timing was selected after evaluating worldwide system usage to identify a specific time that minimizes the impact to user workflow and ensures that all users and administrators will be transitioned to the new platform by the morning of Monday, February 4, 2008

After transition, Ovid Web Gateway will no longer be accessible.

OvidSP stats are currently available at https://ovidspstats.ovid.com. You will continue to have access to historical Gateway usage stats at http://ovid-admin.ovid.com/stats2/ after the transition.

Transfer date to OvidSP

"To ensure that customers in every global region will have access to OvidSP on the morning of Monday, February 4th, 2008, all Ovid Gateway customers will be automatically directed to OvidSP on Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 3:30pm EST (8:30pm GMT). "

"The timing was selected after evaluating worldwide system usage to identify a specific time that minimizes the impact to user workflow and ensures that all users and administrators will be transitioned to the new platform by the morning of Monday, February 4, 2008 "

"After transition, Ovid Web Gateway will no longer be accessible. All user settings, jumpstarts, and alerts will remain intact and be fully functional in the new platform (Ovid Web Gateway Jumpstart URLs will automatically re-direct to OvidSP). Please be sure to update your bookmarks to include: http://ovidsp.ovid.com"

"The OvidSP Resource Center is your destination for all supporting materials and information."

"OvidSP stats are currently available at https://ovidspstats.ovid.com. You will continue to have access to historical Gateway usage stats at http://ovid-admin.ovid.com/stats2/ after the transition."

Enabling Innovation

To view the draft conference programme and to book your place, please visit the JISC Conference 2008 website at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2008/04/jiscconference08.aspx

JISC Geospatial Resources Working Group

This Working Group held its most recent meeting in July 2007 in Glasgow. The Group’s aim is to ensure that high quality geospatial resources are available to the UK educational community. At the July meeting we heard updates from EDINA and MIMAS on the resources available from them, and we began the development of a Group Work Plan. The group would welcome views of the user community on geospatial resources and what is required in the future. More information about the Group including the 10 page draft Vision Statement is available on the JISC website at http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/workinggroups/geospatial.aspx

Joan Bird (JIBS Representative on JISC Geospatial Resources Working Group)

Intellectual Property - By Aimable Twahirwa

Recent article in WIPO Magazine may be of interest:

22 health research institutions in Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Chad, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea established a set of common policies to enable them to share IP services and to become an R&D network. A parallel project was also set up in Colombia in Latin America.

http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2007/06/article_0007.html

“Through this R&D network, central African institutions participating in this initiative are now sharing resources to process patent applications and commercialize research results,”