Newsline from EDINA
April 2005: Volume 10, Issue 1
Plans are under way to open up the JORUM in June this year. The JORUM is the JISC-funded national repository for learning and teaching materials, that will be provided as a free online service. The aim of JORUM is to promote the sharing, re-use and re-purposing of resources amongst Further and Higher Education Institutions in the UK.
This community venture needs your support. The JORUM Contributor Service begins on 1 June 2005, opening up the JORUM as a digital storage facility for any institution or project team that chooses to share its learning and teaching materials with colleagues in the UK. The initial purpose was to host materials that had been developed with public funding but this is now extended to materials developed with institutional funding. The JORUM Depositor Licence is now available. If you are interested in contributing materials to JORUM, please contact the EDINA Helpdesk. We will arrange to send you the Depositor Licence and give you further information about the Contributor Service.
The JORUM will also be opened up to allow download of the learning and teaching materials. There will be a JORUM Repository Licence, which will have to be signed by institutions that wish to allow their teaching and support staff to preview and download materials from the repository. This service will be free and access will be via Athens.
The exact date for opening up the download facilities has not yet been fixed by the JISC. Register your interest and we will let you know as soon as the JORUM Repository Licence is available for signing by your institutions and the date from which your staff can get access to the download facilities. We will be looking to Contributor Institutions to help us test the download facilities.
Further information is at http://www.jorum.ac.uk.