New JISC funding for institutional repositories

The JISC budget for funding OA repositories and related initiatives has just been enlarged. From today's press release: 'It was announced today that JISC has received an extra £15m to invest in IT initiatives to support learning, teaching and research. The money, awarded by HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) through its Strategic Development Fund (SDF), is in addition to £25m from the Spending Review agreed earlier this year. The funds, totalling £40m, will be used for a range of activities and represents a significant investment to support and enhance further the UK's digital infrastructure, access to online content and the development of digital repositories....The funding, which covers the years 2006 – 2008, will be invested in the following areas of activity: ...[2] further digitisation of major scholarly collections;...[5] development of a shared infrastructure to support the growing use of institutional repositories.'