Why are JISC developing portals?
JISC has built up a collection of resources that provide high-quality content to the Higher and Further Education (HE/FE) community for learning, teaching and research. As Internet resources of educational value have grown, the need has arisen to be able to search across many of these resources to discover and retrieve relevant information. Portals will allow the user to retrieve this information from across these resources via a single interface without having to search each one individually.