JISC national e-books observatory project

31st July, 2008

JISC Collections, as part of the JISC national e-books observatory project, has been awarded JISC funding to undertake a study on the management and economic impact of e-textbook business models on publishers, e-book aggregators and higher and education institutions.
The study will review and analyse current business models available for course texts and e-textbooks and […]

DLA Workshop for Librarians

5th June, 2008

Deep Log Analysis (DLA) workshop
JISC Collections and CIBER invite librarians to attend the DLA workshop. The workshop will provide librarians with an update on the project and the findings from the DLA study thus far. Librarians will be invited to share and discuss their opinions on the study and to explore the possibility of real […]

Library and Information Show

25th April, 2008

I did a whiz through presentation on the project at the Library and Information Show in Birmingham. It was nice to see so many FE librarians and members from the Schools Community. I find that many people have questions that they are a little too scared to ask in front of lots of people so it […]

Read all e-bout it!

22nd April, 2008

There is so much to catch up on! I have been travelling around to various conferences this month and been talking to lots of people so here is a quick run down of whats been going on!
1. Findings from the first user survey
The findings from the first user survey have been published. We had over […]

JISC e-textbook debate: revolution or evolution?

22nd April, 2008

As part of project and the JISC’s Libraries of Future programme we held a ‘question time’ style event with publishers, e-books aggregators and librarians. The reason behind the event was to allow publishers and librarians to openly discuss the challenges they face in delivering e-textbooks through the library. The surprising part of the debate was that actually there was […]

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