Where felt necessary or useful a member of the JIBS User Group Committee is given the role of liaising directly with the service provider or body - these relationships are given on the page for each body. Representatives of Service Providers are invited to address each meeting of the User group Committee and to submit the either the text of their talk or a link to it for inclusion on these web pages. The AHDS is a national service funded by the JISC to collect, describe, and preserve the electronic resources which result from research and teaching in the humanities. It is a distributed service involving a number of Service Providers devoted to archaeology, history, literary, linguistic and other textual studies, the visual arts, and the performing arts.
BIDS provide bibliographic data and electronic journals for education and research.
The IBSS has been compiling social science bibliographies since 1952. JUGL acts as a forum for the discussion of library use of the network, makes proposals for the further development of information services on the network, and aims to assist the library profession in making effective use of the network. The MAU will also manage contracts between the JISC and any information services it funds in future. The MAU reports directly to the JISC Committee on Electronic Information. The MAU intends to be available to the services, the CEI and users of the services in the higher education community to listen to the views of all concerned, to act as an official channel for these views and where appropriate to advise.