Press Release: University of Liverpool selects Talis Aspire

Talis has announced that the University of Liverpool has become the latest university to select Talis Aspire.

Phil Sykes, University Librarian at Liverpool, commented:

“Improving the student experience is a key priority for the University of Liverpool; and we expect the acquisition of Talis Aspire to bring benefits to students, academics and the Library.  Students will gain easy, timely, access to the materials they need, regardless of format, linked from their modules in the university VLE.  Lecturers will gain flexibility and control over recommended reading, enabling the signposting of student learning.  And in the University Library we will be able to maximise use of our resources and ensure access to the materials our users need.”

The University of Liverpool is one of the UK’s leading research institutions with an annual turnover of £410 million, including £150 million for research. The university has over 30,000 students, is ranked in the top 1% of higher education institutions worldwide and is a member of the Russell Group. Visit www.liv.ac.uk for more information.

More about Talis
Talis is a privately owned software company whose mission is to apply technology and data to help transform education. Talis Aspire enables academics and librarians to find,  bookmark, manage and track usage of recommended learning resources for students. The aggregated data in the Talis Network consists of over 1.5 million resources (textbooks, ebooks, journals, documents, videos and web pages), recommended by academics from all subject areas, and used by over 1 million students around the world. The data and the connections between users, subjects, courses, and resources represent an Education Graph which enables collective intelligence features that puts the knowledge of the whole network to work for the user, in order to help improve teaching and learning.

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