The Information Environment Service Registry (IESR) has been developed to provide a registry of information about electronic resources that are of value to teachers, researchers and learners. The IESR project is part of JISC's Shared Infrastructure Services programme4.

The aim is to create a reliable source of information that other applications, such as portals, can freely access through machine-to-machine protocols to help their end users discover resources of assistance to them. Search for content on all of the JISC services websites5

The IESR contains information about the resources themselves, technical details about how to access the resources, and contact details for the resource providers. For resource providers the IESR will hold a master description of their electronic resources, to which other potential users of the resources may be directed.