JISC Legal : Guidance by Date

Disability discrimination law applies to the services including educational services an institution provides to its staff, students, and third parties.

Checklist of relevant questions to be asked in accepting material for use in an e-repository.

Essentials guide for practical legal information on the laws in the UK affecting e-repositories.

Basic introduction to the establishment, development and administration of online repositories in FE and HE.

This toolkit provides details on basic concepts and techniques of records management.

The JISC Information Management infoKit was launched in September 2007 and attempts to provide a consistent framework for managing all types of internal information.

A point by point guide to Data Protection Law for FE and HE.

This overview explains the application of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the 'Act') to UK further and higher education institutions.

This overview paper focuses on disability discrimination in respect of ICT and the provision of educational services in UK publicly-funded further and higher education.

This publication is aimed at UK further and higher education staff working in areas related to knowledge transfer, work based learning, community links, outreach, CPD, employer engagement, wider participation, and lifelong learning.

If a college or university delivers any Business and Community Engagement activities online, the institution must make sure that its website and processes comply with the e-commerce rules. This guide gives an overview of these rules.

Essentials step by step guide on copyright law for FE and HE.

A personal view by Steve Bailey of changes in records management and what they might mean.

An examination of intellectual property rights (IPR) in student created work.

An outline of the legal issues of podcasting as an educational tool and practical advice on how institutions can ensure legal compliance.

When developing e-learning environments or authoring elearning materials, it is important that educational institutions and e-learning authors bear in mind the institution’s obligations under disability discrimination legislation.

The prevalence of computer related crime means that FE and HE institutions are affected in many of the same ways as other businesses, organisations and individuals.

This Cybercrime overview paper explores the main obligations imposed on institutions concerning the provision and use of IT facilities in terms of cybercrime.

RecordKeeping was published quarterly between 2004 and 2009 covering news, case studies and examples of best practice from The National Archives and the wider archives and records management communities. 

This section contains details of policies and legislation that relate to or have an impact on archives and records management, such as the Data Protection Act, the Freedom of Information Act and the current acts relating to archive services at local and regional levels.