Welcome to the November 2010 JISCMail Newsletter. This newsletter was created with our very own newsletter tool. Any subscriber to JISCMail can use our professional looking newsletter templates. Find out more here: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/subscribers/newsletters.html.

In this issue of the JISCMail newsletter we introduce our new Web Helpline, find out about the development of a long standing JISCMail group and give tips to help to use JISCMail more efficiently.

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As an example of how JISCMail has aided collaboration for large scale projects across the globe we're pleased to report a landmark event for the DIGITAL-PRESERVATION group.

The group's owner, Neil Beagrie, tells us more:

The Digital Preservation group recently passed a significant milestone - its 10th birthday. Today there are some 1300 subscribers in over 30 countries.

The first message was posted on 13th November 2000 and there have been many thousands of postings since then. A full archive for the list since its inception is available on JISCMail at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/digital-preservation.

The Digital Preservation list was originally set-up a decade ago as a means of disseminating news about JISC’s Digital Preservation Programme. Over the years it has grown into an announcement list with an international scope and audience. It has been crucial in helping to develop a community around digital preservation in the UK and abroad. Last but by no means least, it has helped create and maintain the very high-profile internationally of work by UK institutions in this field.

"Without the JISCmail group the Dutch would have had to do without a window on important developments in the UK and beyond. I'm sure our progress would have been slower." - Inge Angevaare, Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation

The JISCMail team would like to congratulate the group on their achievements and wish them another ten years of continued success.

At JISCMail, we are adding a new way to contact the support team. Along with our telephone and e-mail support we now accept queries through our new Web Helpline. The web helpline provides a user friendly web based interface for support queries.

The Web Helpline also shows your current and previous correspondence with our e-mail helpline. If you’ve e-mailed our helpline support in the past the web helpline will show all of your old queries and the solutions from the JISCMail team.

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The ability to post to a group is controlled by the access control keyword Send= , found in the group header configuration. Below is a brief explanation of the Send settings to be found in our groups.

Send= Public,Confirm,Non-Member

The most open access is to allow anyone from the public to post to a group whether a member of the group or not. Non-members of the group have to confirm their email before the posting is submitted to the group. As most spam is from spoofed email addresses, these postings are then rejected

Send= Private

This is the most common and safest setting within our groups and is our default. It only allows group members to post to the group. Most would be ‘spammers’ are deterred by having to join a group before posting to it.

Send= Editor,Hold,Confirm,Non-Member

This is the setting needed if the group is edited/moderated, and needs to be accompanied by the line

Editor= [log in to unmask]

Or the lines

Editor= [log in to unmask]

Moderator= All,

Moderator= [log in to unmask]

Moderator= [log in to unmask]

N.B.Confirm,Non-Member requires that anyone who is not a group member must confirm their email address, thus eradicating most spam

Send= Owner(s)

This setting is usually used in announcement only groups and in super groups where the owner(s) wishes to have total control over the postings

Send= [log in to unmask]

This setting is sometimes used by an owner who preferes to post from a designated email address, rather than a more personal one i.e.

Owner= [log in to unmask]

Send= [log in to unmask]

It can also be used in the context where A owns the group but would rather have B post to it for him/her

Send= Private, (groupNAME)

This setting allows members of the group and also members of the group named groupNAME to post. This is sometimes used in a supergroup to allow members of the subgroup to post to both the subgroup and supergroup

Efficiency

PEPRS-DEVELOPMENT - A group to discuss the PEPRS project, a project that provides a registry service of information about inclusion of journals in preservation services.

LIS-BIBLIOMETRICS - A bibliometrics discussion list for the Library and Research Community. As the use of citation analysis becomes more prevelant as a measure of research quality in UK HE, this list provides a forum for those involved in applying such measures. It may be used for discussing the advantages and disadvantages of bibliometrics generally, as well as the practical application of tools such as the JCR, Publish or Perish, Scimago and so on.

CALICE-SB - A group for discussion amongst the CALICE Collaboration Steering Board.

OER-DISCUSS - A public group for the discussion of issues around and raised by the release, use, remix and discovery of Open Educational Resources (OER).

ACCESSFORENGAGEMENT - A group for for support and communication for the JISC Collections / LSE project http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Our-projects/EAM2BCE/

INFORM - A discussion group for for members of the academic community associated with International Foundation Programmes (IFPs). The group is run on behalf of InForm, the journal of teaching and learning related good practice in the IFP sector.

OER - A public list for the discussion of issues around and raised by the release, use, remix and discovery of Open Educational Resources (OER).

BTG - A community for those invloved with BTG to share resources, work experience examples etc.

EPUB - A discussion group for further and higher education to discuss the ePUB standard which at the moment includes the Open Publication Structure (OPS) 2.0, Open Packaging Format (OPF) 2.0 and OEBPS Container Format (OCF) 1.0 standards which are maintained by the International Digital Publishing Forum (http://www.idpf.org/).

Learning and Teaching

SCOTPID - This list is to support the Scottish PDP Institutional Development Programme - a year long initiative to help individual higher education institutions identify, understand and #resolve key issues affecting Personal Development Planning.

PI-RATE - PI-RATE Poly-Interferogram Rate And Time-series Estimator is a Matlab-based software package that estimates displacement rate, time series and their associated uncertainties from a set of unwrapped InSAR images.

MLEARN - A group for the mLearn conference on learning with mobile technologies.

MISSINGPERSONS - Missing Persons Research inc. young runaways, unidentified bodies. This list concerns research about missing persons, including research about young people who run away and unidentified bodies. The aim of the list is to allow members to access a cross-disciplinary, cross-sector network of researchers working in the field.

EARLYMODERNFESTIVAL - International Network for the Study of Early Modern Festival. The International Network for Early Modern Festival Study, co-ordinated by Laura Fernandez-Gonzalez, is a forum in which scholars researching Early Modern Festivals can #discuss issues of mutual interest.

AM-SOCIETY -The Alfred Marshall Society(AMS) is for discussion of all aspects of Alfred Marshall including neo-classical economics, postmodern economics etc. Topics cover all areas of interest of politics and history.

External Engagement

CAMPAIGNFORTHEPUBLICUNIVERSITY - This group is to enable academics, postgraduate students, and others to discuss the current changes being proposed to higher education.

CUTS-DISCUSS - A group for staff and students at the University of Warwick and elsewhere to share information on issues and events around the current cuts to higher education.

SOLAR-BID - Announcements of opportunities available in Solar Science Research that could lead to further funding opportunities.

CAMPAIGNFORTHEPUBLICUNIVERSITY - This group is to enable academics, postgraduate students, and others to discuss the current changes being proposed to higher education.

PSA-RHETORIC - The list is exclusively for members of the UK Political Studies Association Specialist Group in Rhetoric and Politics. The list will inform members of its activities, such as the panels it will hold at the annual PSA conference as well as events held outside the conference. The list is separate from the Rhetoric and Politics Society of the UK.

Research

EPUB-EBOOKS - A discussion group for further and higher education to discuss the ePUB standard which at the moment includes the Open Publication Structure OPS 2.0, Open Packaging Format OPF 2.0 and OEBPS Container Format OCF 1.0 standards.

SRHE - A group for The Society for Research into Higher Education; a UK-based international learned society concerned to advance understanding of higher education, especially through the insights, perspectives and knowledge offered by systematic research and scholarship.

NTWCLRN-CI - A discussion group for the Chief Investigators of the Northumberland Tyne and Wear Clinical Research Network.

NATURE-SCAN - Researchers and Practioners providing activites that support social cohesion and well-being in nature.

ICTRN - A group to support the communications of an Information and Communications Technology in Education Research Network

PARN-MEMBERS - This group will be used by the members of the parent abuse research network. The purpose of the network is to develop and disseminate research on the issue of parent abuse.

ECOLOGYOFCRUSADING - This is the mailing list for the Ecology of Crusading research project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) from 2010-2014. Details of seminars, events, publications and fieldwork will be posted here.

LRG - The Ludlow Research Group (founded 1950)is an informal association of UK and international geologists working on, or with an active interest in, rocks of Silurian age. It arranges annual field meetings and encourages collaboration and good communications.

Sustainability

FORESTECOLOGYGROUP - A group for the Forest Ecology Group for dissemination of information about events, opportunities jobs, grants etc. and other news.

DIGITAL-LIBRARY-FORUM - Forum for those interested in digital library and collection issues. A forum for discussing issues and arranging events concerning digital libraries, Special Collections and archives.

The JANET 'at risk' period applies to the JISCMail service and occurs every Tuesday morning between 07:00 and 09:00. Wherever possible, all maintenance will be conducted within this period.