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1 Supporting Higher and Further Education
“GOING GLOBAL”: JISC IN THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA Reg Carr JISC/CNI Conference, Stratford, 14 June 2000 Supporting Higher and Further Education 1

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 THE UK HE INTERNATIONAL AGENDA: KEY ISSUES AND DRIVERS
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

4 THE JISC: ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT JISC
HE Institutions Support & Services JISC Support & Services FE Institutions 5 Sub-Committees Networking Electronic Information Authentication & Security Awareness, Liaison & Training Integrated Environments for 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 JISC INTERNATIONAL: FORMAL PROGRAMMES & ALLIANCES
National Science Foundation Internet 2 eLib/DNER Research Libraries Group iParadigms DANTE

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 JISC INTERNATIONAL: OVERVIEW OF TOPICS COVERED
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.


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