Ebooks collections: the JISC experience

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E-books collections the JISC experience

• Fionnuala Cassidy
• JISC RSC Scotland South West

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JISC e-books Working Group

• Membership
• Aims
• Activities

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Activities

• Shaping a Strategy for e-books
• e-book Mapping Exercise
• Promoting the uptake of eBooks in higher and
  further education

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Gale Virtual Reference Library
A core collection of 21 e-Book titles - 63
volumes Specially selected in collaboration
with the JISC Working Groups for eBooks, Learning
Materials and the FE Community
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Gale Virtual Reference Library

• JISC - purchased the collection on behalf of the
  community, and the content is available to FE
  institutions for 65 per year.
• Normal cost for a set of all of the 21 titles -
  5,000
• The collection offers
• Students and teachers a comprehensive collection
  of reference materials in electronic format
• A wide range of subject and curriculum areas
  including Arts and Humanities, Child Care
  studies, Fashion, Business and Finance, Tourism
  and much more.
• Available for all FE institutions from August 1st
  2004

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Title List

• Arts and Humanities Through the Eras
• Child Development
• Contemporary Fashion
• Countries Their Cultures
• Encyclopedias of
• Business Finance
• Clothing and Fashion
• Food Culture
• Science, Technology and Ethics
• E-Commerce
• Psychology

• Encyclopedia of Science
• History Behind the Headlines
• Learning Memory
• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• Nonfiction Classics for Students
• Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z
• Pollution A to Z
• Science of Everyday Things
• World Press Encyclopedia
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations

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Reference Library Features

• Search within a single e-Book or an entire
  collection
• Email and print articles from your eBooks
• Link to entries/articles from the Table of
  Contents or the index
• Browse a list of illustrations

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Searching the Collection
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Further Information

• JISC Collections
• http//www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?namecoll
• E-books Working group
• http//www.jisc.ac.uk/wg_ebooks_home.html
• JISC RSC Scotland South West
• http//www.rsc-sw-scotland.ac.uk