Changes: August 2011

From 1st August 2011, Jorum is moving forward with a focus on Open Educational Resources (OER), and is being hosted by Mimas at the University of Manchester. Whilst we will continue to provide access to resources shared under the more restrictive Jorum EducationUK and Institutional licences to those who deposited them, our aim is to give attention to open content in recognition of this representing the majority of our collection. Here is a summary of the key changes, and what they mean for our users. We are keen to hear your comments and ideas,
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Focus on OER

As JISC's national learning and teaching repository service, Jorum is now focusing on being a fully open repository for learning and teaching resources. Jorum has supported different licensing regimes over time, in response to different approaches to sharing, and as IPR awareness and the willingness to share have evolved, Jorum again has adapted.

We have now chosen to simplify Jorum to help make its offering to the educational community clearer, by focusing on open educational content available under Creative Commons (CC) licences. We will continue to build and develop the service as a trusted place where the UK OER community can share their resources, as well as find other openly-licensed content.

This focus on Open Educational Resources (OER) translates into teachers (and learners) having greater access to learning and teaching materials, and resources deposited into Jorum can potentially have even more impact.

Hosting and relicensing other resources

A relatively small number of resources were previously made available in Jorum under a JorumUK Institutional licence (which expired on 31st July 2011), or a Jorum EducationUK licence, which restricted access to those in the UK only. Further information on these former licensing regimes is available in the archived policies section. We have been working with depositors to relicense their resources under CC licences where possible, and if you would like to relicense your non-CC resources, please contact support@jorum.ac.uk.
Additional details can be found in the following news article: Re-Licensing Jorum's Resources to be Fully Open.

If you deposited content under non-CC licences, you will still be able to access this when you log onto your deposit area. Whilst we are committed to sharing as much content as possible under open licences, we will be monitoring the demand for sharing content under more restrictive licences. If you do have such a requirement we would be pleased to hear from you so that we consider these requests as we move forwards.
Please contact support@jorum.ac.uk for more information.

Transferring the Jorum DSpace repository to Mimas

As of 1st August 2011, Jorum is being hosted by Mimas at the University of Manchester; previously, we had been a service run collaboratively with EDINA at the University of Edinburgh. Further information about Jorum’s history and joint development with EDINA is available in this Jorum history page. This transfer also means that Jorum’s DSpace repository (and authentication to it for depositors) has been moved to Mimas, and if you are a registered user of the Jorum repository, it will be necessary to migrate your depositor account. This will enable you to continue to see those resources you have already deposited.

This migration is a brief and one-off process, and if you have not already received details of how to migrate your account, please contact support@jorum.ac.uk for more information. Alternatively, if you do not wish to migrate your account, please email support@jorum.ac.uk with “no migration” in the subject line.

If you do not migrate your account, you will still be able to use Jorum and deposit new content to the repository; however, the system will ask you to register again when you wish to do so. More importantly, none of those resources you had previously deposited will be available to you in the “Deposits” section.

Updated Terms of Service and Policies

We've updated our Terms of Service, Collection Development Policy, Privacy Policy and Notice and Takedown Policy to reflect the fact that Jorum is now run solely by Mimas at the University of Manchester.

A Greater Emphasis on Collaboration

As our announcement in May 2011 stated, our vision involves increasingly working collaboratively with diverse communities of practice, particularly the UKOER projects, such as PORSCHE, and other international open repositories, such as NDLR in the Republic of Ireland and the Learning Registry in the United States, in order to better understand the impact of use and reuse of learning and teaching resources and to improve discoverability. The ‘Achieving our vision’ section of the Mimas news release includes more information.