To miss-quote Mark Twain. The JISC access management team is remaining in place (and has always planned to be in place) until the end of this year. It doesn’t take a genuis to work out that the next few months will be very important for the UK Federation - and we will be there to offer our support.

More importantly we are here right now - and with two weeks to go to the big switch, if your institution has not joined the Federation please DO contact us to check that this isn’t going to impact on your students. There may be a few institutions that won’t feel any impact of not being in the Federation but I can’t imagine it will be many. So please get federation membership applications in. Some of you will have been waiting on decisions about third party options etc - these decisions will in most cases now have been made and joining the Federation will be the next obvious and urgent step.