Jorum has opened up to sharing of learning and teaching resources using Creative Commons (CC) licences - under the banner of JorumOpen. This collection of open educational resources allows free access, for all to benefit worldwide.

Members of UK Further and Higher Education Institutions, using the UK Access Management Federation to authenticate, can deposit - but anyone will be able to search, browse and download the resources deposited into JorumOpen.

The JorumUK collection contains resources that their creators and owners prefer to share only within UK Higher and Further Education. This collection contains all resources deposited in Jorum before 2010 which were licensed under the institutional-based licence. At present, JorumUK still requires an institutional subscription to deposit, search, browse and download resources.

Forthcoming additional services

By spring 2010, Jorum will offer further enhancements to the service, which will include:

1. a new licence - JorumEducationUK, available within JorumUK to enable sharing across UK Further and Higher Education Institutions without an institutional subscription.
2. a unified search - enabling users to search across all resources held within both JorumOpen and JorumUK collections, providing one simple search functionality.

By summer 2010, Jorum will also offer:

1. a central deposit tool - a single point for depositors to contribute resources automatically under either JorumOpen or JorumUK.