The national e-books observatory project is about exploring impacts, observing behaviours and developing new models to stimulate the e-books market, and to do all this in a managed environment.

Project aims

  • To licence a collection of e-books that are highly relevant to UK HE course taught students in four discipline areas:
    • Business and Management Studies
    • Engineering
    • Medicine (not mental health or nursing)
    • Media Studies
  • To evaluate the use of the e-books though deep log analysis and the impact of the free at the point of use materials upon publisher, aggregator and library processes
  • To transfer knowledge acquired in the project to publishers, aggregators and libraries to help stimulate an e-books market that has appropriate business and licensing models

Latest news

  1. 28th April, 2009

    Time to speed up »

  2. 9th April, 2009

    Missed UKSG? »

  3. 12th March, 2009

    40,000 responses and rising! »

  4. 12th March, 2009

    Upcoming e-book observatory events »

  5. 19th January, 2009

    Librarians - e-books user exit survey launched »

Project management

Caren Milloy
e-books project manager
JISC Collections
Ground Floor,
Brettenham House (South),
5 Lancaster Place

London,   WC2E 7EN

Work : 020 3006 6003
Mobile : 07817 030 769


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