JORUM

JORUM is a JISC-funded collaborative venture in UK Higher and Further Education to collect and share learning and teaching materials, allowing their reuse and repurposing, and standing as a national statement of the importance of creating interoperable, sustainable materials.
JORUM Contributor allows institutions and project teams to share learning and teaching materials with colleagues in the UK. JORUM will host materials that have been publicly funded and also materials which have been developed within institutions.
JORUM User provides access to the shared repository of resources. Teaching and support staff in institutions that take this service will be able to find, preview, download, reuse and repurpose materials for use with learners in their institution. They will also find a collection of teaching support, staff development and case study materials to assist them in using the learning materials with students.
A research and development strand will run in parallel with the JORUM service in order to ensure that JORUM keeps up with the evolving repositories landscape and expanding user requirements. The JORUM repository (offering a searchable online library of learning and teaching resources for UK teaching staff) uses a system called intraLibrary, procured from Intrallect Ltd.
The JORUM User Service, providing access to these resources, will be available from 30th January 2006. All UK Further and Higher Education institutions who sign up will be able to search, preview, download and reuse the learning and teaching material found in the system. More information from http://www.jorum.ac.uk/news/index.html