JISC MediaHub moves up a gear

Posted on: 18 September 2013

One of the main sources of copyright-cleared moving images, still images and sound for use in UK Further and Higher Education is set to include a major collection of engineering videos. Rick Loup welcomes IET.tv into JISC MediaHub.

About the Author: Rick Loup is Multimedia Services Development Officer at EDINA, the Jisc-designated centre of expertise and centre for online services and part of ‘EDINA and Data Library’ division of Information Services at the University of Edinburgh. He co-ordinates, develops and supports delivery of existing and new multimedia services and monitors wider UK initiatives to determine service opportunities for EDINA
E-mail: richard.loup@ED.AC.UK
Tel: 0131 651 1319

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This autumn a major scientific video collection becomes available online to UK Further and Higher Education as part of JISC MediaHub (http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk), one of the primary sources of multimedia content for free use in UK Further and Higher Education. The IET.tv archive (The Institute of Engineering and Technology) is one of the largest sources of multimedia content in the field of engineering and technology.  It contains video programmes from practising engineers, technologists and key industry speakers, including prestigious lectures and presentations from major IET and other organisations’ events, and interviews with experts from industry and academia. In total, there are over 3,000 videos, each between twenty and forty-five minutes long, covering important subjects and filmed between 2002 and 2012.

The IET.tv collection is licensed by JISC Collections. Lorraine Estelle, head of content at Jisc, says:

‘This engineering collection is a great complement to other moving-image content that JISC Collections has licensed for the UK academic community, much of which so far has been broadly in the arts and humanities area. I’d also like to emphasise that the collection is free to members of FE institutions that subscribe to JISC MediaHub, Jisc’s major multimedia platform, hosted by EDINA, a key Jisc partner service. Making JISC MediaHub free to UK Further Education is part of Jisc’s renewed commitment to the sector.’