JISC MediaHub: the definitive academic video, image & sound resource

JISC MediaHub results page.

JISC MediaHub is a new service which opens up access to over one million multimedia assets.

The service gives users a single point-of-access to all the collections in the existing EDINA multimedia services: NewsFilm Online (NFO), Film & Sound Online (FSOL), and Education Image Gallery.

It also enables users to search an increasing range of other third-party collections relevant to UK Further and Higher Education, such as Culture Grid, Wellcome Images and The First World War Poetry Archive. We hope British Library Archival Sound Recordings, VADS, ARKive and Scran will follow soon.

A beta version is available for all institutions already subscribing to NFO, FSOL or EIG until August. In addition, access to each of these EDINA services continues in parallel via their respective login pages until August.

Positive community response

Early feedback on JISC MediaHub is positive, as is the firm backing from JISC. Professor David Baker, Deputy Chair of the JISC Board, said

“The massive increase in digital media has created exciting challenges and opportunities for the online delivery of message and meaning through visual rather than text-based media. JISC MediaHub is a very good example of how JISC is responding to these challenges and opportunities, and I hope it will in future play a role in ‘Discovery: A metadata ecology for UK education and research’, the newly-launched JISC and RLUK initiative.”

EDINA would like to thank all those who submitted comments during the JISC MediaHub preview phase and those who have given us feedback when using NFO, FSOL and EIG.

JISC MediaHub will continue to enhance its functionality and content until August when access will be more generally available via UK access management and IP for streaming and download.

JISC eCollections

From August JISC MediaHub becomes part of the new JISC eCollections service, which will also offer:

JISC Historic Books: The full text or page images of over 300,000 books published in England before 1800 and uniquely, and never before available online, over 65,000 19th Century books from the British Library
JISC Journal Archives: more than 3.75 million articles from over 450 journals of major publishers and societies – Brill, Institution of Civil Engineers, Institute of Physics, ProQuest, Oxford University Press, The Royal Society of Chemistry.

You can subscribe to JISC eCollections now.