Jisc

JISC may refer to: * Jisc, formerly known as Joint Information Systems Committee, the UK body concerned with information and communications technology in education * Japanese Industrial Standards Committee

Jisc is a United Kingdom not-for-profit organisation that provides network and IT services and digital resources in support of further and higher education and research, as well as the public sector. Its head office is based in Bristol with offices in London, Manchester, and Oxford. Its current CEO is Heidi Fraser-Krauss, who joined in September 2021 from the University of Sheffield. ==Services== Services offered by Jisc include: Providing UK universities and colleges with shared digital infrastructure and services, such as the JANET network Operating shared digital infrastructure and services, including: Archives Hub (a catalogue of the collections of academic and other institutions) Library Hub eduroam UK (wireless access across different institutions) Learner Analytics and authentication systems (Open Athens and the UK Federation) Sherpa (tools for checking permissions around Open Access) Negotiating sector-wide deals, such as the Jisc Collections licenses for academic journals as well as deals with IT vendors, commercial publishers and aggregators of e-content. Advice on digital technology for education and research. Providing cyber security products and services. Jisc acts as a national consortium for the UK academic community. The National Academic Mailing List Service, known as JiscMail, was, , the UK's biggest educational and research email discussion list community. JiscMail is part of Jisc. JiscMail hosts over 9000 educational and research email mailing lists and in 2015 had over 1,500,000 unique subscribers. JiscMail uses LISTSERV mailing list software. JiscMail helps groups of individuals to communicate and discuss education/research interests using email discussion lists. JiscMail Helpline are the team who provide information, advice, support and help to users of the service, from setting up new lists, to helping customers find lists, join lists, update their details. JiscMail became the National Mailing List Service as the successor to a previous service, Mailbase, in November 2000. Services previously offered by Jisc include: The Plagiarism Advisory Service, also known as JISCPAS, offered advice on plagiarism to higher education institutions. A public mirror service (mirror.ac.uk) primarily focused on free software, operating between 1999 and July 2007. ZETOC, a service providing access to the British Library's table of contents, including more than 30,000 journals and 52 million articles and conferences papers, which was provided by JISC free of charge to members of JISC-sponsored UK further or higher education establishments and UK research councils. The ZETOC service was withdrawn with effect from 1 August 2022 after a review found "a progressive decline in its use and a diminishing number of users".

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