The JISC Information Environment Service Registry (IESR) provides a registry of all "significant research collections in the UK" and supports "teaching, learning and researc
It is funded by the
Jisc
Jisc is a United Kingdom not-for-profit company that provides network and IT services and digital resources in support of further and higher education institutions and research as well as not-for-profits and the public sector.
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under its Shared Infrastructure Services programme.
The IESR aims to provide a “Yellow Pages for the academic internet” accessible through web and machine interfaces. It provides a reliable source of information that other applications, such as portals, can freely access through machine-to-machine protocols, in order to help their end users discover resources of assistance to them.
IESR contains information about the resources themselves, technical details about how to access the resources, and contact details for the resource providers.
IESR is a
Mimas service based at the
University of Manchester
, mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity
, established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...
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References
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External links
IESRarchived Homepage
Service Registries Blog
Jisc
Online databases
Science and technology in Greater Manchester
Tertiary educational websites