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Higher education research data

      Titles Descriptions
  1. AHDS: Arts and Humanities Data Service
  2. BIDS: Bath Information and Data Services
  3. BUFVC: British Universities Film and Video Council
  4. CHEST Directory
  5. CHEST: Combined Higher Education Software Team
  6. COPAC: University Research Library Catalogue
  7. EDINA: Edinburgh Data and Information Access
  8. HEDS: Higher Education Digitisation Service
  9. MIMAS: Manchester Information and Associated Services (formerly MIDAS)
  10. NESLI: National Electronic Site Licensing Initiative
  11. Newsfilm Online
  12. Survey on Attitudes to the Pricing of JISC-Funded Databases
  13. UK Data Archive

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AHDS: Arts and Humanities Data Service
National centre to coordinate access to and facilitate the creation and use of scholarly electronic resources in the arts and humanities.
     Author: AHDS
     Subjects: art research, higher education research data, historical data, humanities research, law links, library and information science research
     DeweyClass: 001.3
     Resource type: document collection, journal
BIDS: Bath Information and Data Services
BIDS is a national provider of network access to commercially supplied bibliographic database services for UK higher education and research. Many services require registration.
     Author: BIDS, Bath University
     Subjects: higher education research data, online bibliographic searching, scientific research uk, social science research
     DeweyClass: 025.04
     Resource type: bibliography, reference data
BUFVC: British Universities Film and Video Council
BUFVC aims to promote the production, study and use of film and related media in British higher education and research. It was founded in 1948 as the British Universities Film Council. It runs a television recording back-up service on behalf of universities and colleges, and its AVANCE database contains thousands of records of audio-visual materials suitable for degree-level teaching.
     Author: British Universities Film and Video Council
     Subjects: film production, film studies, higher education research data, video
     DeweyClass: 384.8
     Resource type: institution
CHEST Directory
Contains details of software and dataset products which are available to the academic community at special discount prices. Each record includes supplier details, education price and CHEST Licence Conditions.
     Author: EduServ
     Subjects: educational software, higher education research data
     DeweyClass: 378.41
     Resource type: directory
CHEST: Combined Higher Education Software Team
Aims to obtain quality commercial software, datasets, training materials and other IT products for the education and research community.
     Author: CHEST
     Subjects: educational software, higher education research data
     DeweyClass: 378
     Resource type: documents
COPAC: University Research Library Catalogue
Internationally accessible union catalogue providing free access to the combined online catalogues from some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
     Author: Manchester Computing, Manchester University
     Subjects: higher education research data, library resource sharing, online bibliographic searching, research libraries
     DeweyClass: 025.3132
     Resource type: opac
EDINA: Edinburgh Data and Information Access
EDINA provides the UK Higher Education and research community with access to a library of data, information and research resources (requires registration).
     Author: EDINA, Edinburgh University
     Subjects: higher education research data, online bibliographic searching
     DeweyClass: 025.04
     Resource type: reference data
HEDS: Higher Education Digitisation Service
Provides services to support the conversion of high volumes of teaching, learning, and scholarly materials from paper and other formats into electronic media. Offers experience and skills in a range of areas including rare book handling and preservation, alongside technical issues surrounding digitisation and information access.
     Author: Hertfordshire University
     Subjects: digitisation, higher education research data
     DeweyClass: 025.0
     Resource type: institution
MIMAS: Manchester Information and Associated Services (formerly MIDAS)
MIMAS provides a range of national dataset services to the UK academic community. These include online access to strategic research and teaching datasets, specialist support (e.g. training courses and documentation), access to software packages and computing resources required for data storage.
     Author: MIMAS, Manchester University
     Subjects: higher education research data, online bibliographic searching, scientific research uk, social science research, uk population
     DeweyClass: 025.04
     Resource type: reference data
NESLI: National Electronic Site Licensing Initiative
A JISC funded programme to deliver a national electronic journal service to the UK higher education and research community. There is extensive information about the service and details of all journals available.
     Author: Manchester University and SwetsBlackwell
     Subjects: electronic journal collections, higher education research data
     DeweyClass: 070.5
     Resource type: journal collection
Newsfilm Online
Service offering access to television news content to users throughout UK higher and further education. The news film is delivered in downloadable form.
     Author: British Universities Film and Video Council
     Subjects: film studies, higher education research data, video
     DeweyClass: 370
     Resource type: opac
Survey on Attitudes to the Pricing of JISC-Funded Databases
This report presents the result of a survey concerning seven priced online services that are available to the academic community as a result of JISC initiatives. Compiled on behalf of the Database Resources Research Group (DRRG).
     Author: East, Harry & Leach, Kathryn
     Subjects: digital library use, higher education research data, online bibliographic searching
     DeweyClass: 025.0
     Resource type: article
UK Data Archive
The Data Archive at the University of Essex houses the largest collection of accessible computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. It is a national resource centre, disseminating data throughout the United Kingdom and, by arrangement with other national archives, internationally. Founded in 1967, it now houses approximately seven thousand datasets of interest to researchers in all sectors and from many different disciplines.
     Author: The Data Archive, Essex University
     Subjects: higher education research data, humanities research, social science research
     DeweyClass: 300
     Resource type: document collection, reference data