This Linked Data Horizon Scan was commissioned from Paul Miller of the Cloud of Data by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The work was intended to provide an overview of current developments with respect to Linked Data, and to make a series of recommendations to JISC and the wider community.
The IELTS (International English Language Testing System) test provides an evaluation of English for those who wish to study or train in English. It is very similar to the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) required by North American universiti
SHEDL aims through collaboration and combined purchasing power to achieve a shared digital library in Scotland with easier access to online content to support research and learning and teaching.
Led by the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL), SHEDL is the first super-consortial purchasing scheme of its kind in the UK. It's success, facilitated by JISC Collections, has provided the nineteen Scottish Higher Education Institutions with access to over 1850 online journals from leading academic publishers; American Chemical Society (ACS), Berg, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Edinburgh University Press (EUP), Oxford University Press (OUP), Springer, and also Portico.
"This site is for anyone who has been to uni in the UK. Whether you are there now, attended last year or 5+ years ago we want to hear your opinions. We also want to hear from you regardless of whether you graduated or not. Perhaps your lecturers were the reason you didn't get your degree? Or maybe they were fantastic. Have your say rate your lecturer! All ratings will appear anonymously on the site." Hmm...