JISC

JISC is an independent advisory body that supports Higher and Further Education by providing strategic guidance, advice and opportunities to use Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to support teaching, learning, research and administration.

In 2005, JISC established a new funding agreement with two nationally designated data centres: Mimas and EDINA. This relationship with JISC has allowed for the assignment of services as appropriate to either of the two data centres. By encouraging the strategic placement of hosted services, this should open greater opportunity for working collaboratively.

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ESRC

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), a leading research funding and training agency, funds research and training in social and economic issues. The ESRC aims to provide high-quality research on issues of importance to business, the public sector and government.

Mimas receives funding from the ESRC for research data services (e.g. ESDS International and CDU) and various research activities, including a number of research and development projects undertaken jointly with the School of Social Sciences at The University of Manchester.

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The University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is Britain's largest single-site university. Already one of the world's top centres for biomedical research, the University is also at the forefront of new discoveries in science and engineering. By 2015, The University of Manchester aims to hold a world-class leading research profile and be among the top 25 universities in the world.

Mimas is a Centre of Excellence based at The University of Manchester. We operate as a part of a university with an ambitious and progressive agenda, with a vision to become one of the best universities in the world by 2015. We look forward to the opportunities that will inevitably spring from this vision.

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British Library

The British Library (BL) serves business and industry, researchers, academics and students, in the UK and globally. They also support UK Higher Education through their collections, services, partnerships and strategic activities.

Mimas has worked collaboratively with the BL for over 10 years. In 1999, Mimas was funded to develop Zetoc, a popular service that has been included in a number of the BL's own strategic developments, including the Research Information Centre (RIC), their collaboration with Microsoft and WorldWideScience.

More recently, Mimas has worked closely with the BL to provide UK Pubmed Central in partnership with the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and The University of Manchester's Faculty of Life Sciences and National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM). Mimas continues to collaborate with the BL on research and development projects, including the Names project.

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