Welcome to the September 2021 issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. A new term begins, and there are many items of news this month – read on!

Exclusive 15% discount on e-books titles until 30 September

A reminder that all colleges who subscribe to e-books for FE can take advantage of a 15% discount on e-books available from ProQuest on Ebook Central until 30 September this year.

This time-limited offer includes all Hodder titles, all Taylor & Francis titles (including imprints Routledge and CRC Press), and selected titles from Oxford University Press and Bloomsbury.

New promotional materials

The Jisc marketing department have created a range of digital assets for library services to use for e-book promotion, including posters for students and teaching staff, images for use on social media and VLEs, and book stickers for QR codes. All assets, plus a guide on how to make best use of them, are available on the e-book for FE support site: https://support.ebooksforfe.jisc.ac.uk/index.php/promotional-materials/

Katie Butler of Ashford College has also written a blog post which describes the e-book promotional activities of the library service – we hope this will generate ideas and inspiration for other colleges. The post is available here: https://feandskillscontent.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2021/09/03/a-guide-to-promoting-e-books-ashford-college/

ProQuest training sessions for LibCentral and Ebook Central

ProQuest will be delivering online training webinars and drop-in Q&A sessions from September to December, covering LibCentral and Ebook Central functionality. Registration is required, and full details of dates and times are available at: https://proquest.libguides.com/JISCFE/training

New ProQuest online guides

ProQuest have updated their how-to guides for LibCentral, Ebook Central, and library admin tasks. Links to the new guides can be found here (please bookmark this link for future reference): https://proquest.libguides.com/JISCFE/ebooks

To note, the third bullet-point link goes to a page featuring the new animated guides on how to use e-books in Ebook Central: https://proquest.libguides.com/ebookcentral

The best guide to the online e-book reader, for library staff and teaching staff, is the one titled ‘Ebook Central Online Reader’.

At the foot of the same page there are links to webinar recordings. The one titled ‘Ebook Central: Tips & Tricks for Faculty’ (30 mins) is a good introduction to e-book functionality.

Information for e-book administration – including how to identify your Site ID, and how to download MARC records – is contained here: https://proquest.libguides.com/JISCFE/admin

Jisc e-book support site

The e-books for FE support site is being re-organised, with the aim of making useful information more readily discoverable. Please note that the main collection-information page (formerly titled ‘Subject Areas’) is now available in a different tab at the following URL: https://support.ebooksforfe.jisc.ac.uk/index.php/guides/e-books-for-fe-collection/

Further updates will be made to the ‘Librarian support’ tab in the coming weeks, with links to the new how-to guides created by ProQuest.

Top 20 users in August 2021

Well done to all organisations who reached a spot in the top 20.

Rank	Organisation	User sessions
1	Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College	397
2	Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group	315
3	Newham Sixth Form College	273
4	New College Lanarkshire	266
5	York College	209
6	Heart of Mercia	201
7	Sir George Monoux College	187
8	New City College Corporation	183
9	Godalming College	175
10	Varndean College	167
11	LTE Group	159
12	Richard Huish College	149
13	University of the Highlands and Islands	148
14	West College Scotland	145
15	The Prospect Trust	139
16	Fife College	128
17	Luton Sixth Form College	124
18	Havant and South Downs College	124
19	The WKCIC Group	115
20	Grŵp Llandrillo Menai	115

Mergers: If your organisation has recently merged with another, ProQuest may not have the most current merger information and your merger may not be reflected in the usage data. Please check with ProQuest and request that they update your account to reflect the merger. Their e-book support contact address is: ebooksupport@proquest.com

Top 20 titles in August 2021

Rank	Title	User sessions
1	CACHE Technical Level 3 Extended Diploma in Health and Social Care	335
2	BTEC Nationals Business Student Book 2: For the 2016 Specifications	300
3	BTEC Nationals Business Student Book 1: For the 2016 Specifications	241
4	AQA A-Level Business	238
5	CACHE Level 3 Child Care and Education: Early Years Educator	233
6	BTEC Nationals Applied Science Student Book 1	231
7	OCR AS/A Level Law Book 1	224
8	Care in Practice Higher (4th edition)	224
9	BTEC Nationals Health and Social Care Student Book 1	217
10	CACHE Level 3 Early Years Educator: for the Work-Based Learner	190
11	BTEC Level 3 Nationals Applied Science Student Book 2	190
12	CACHE Level 2 Diploma for the Early Years Practitioner	156
13	Political Ideas for A Level: Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism, Feminism, Anarchism	155
14	The American Revolution and the Birth of the USA 1740-1801	153
15	Pearson Edexcel A Level Politics	147
16	OCR Sociology for A Level	129
17	BTEC Nationals Health and Social Care Student Book 2: For the 2016 specifications	127
18	Child Development: An Illustrated Guide	114
19	OCR Sociology for A Level Book 2	105
20	AQA A-level Psychology Book 1: For A-level Year 1 and AS	105

Support queries

Email: content.feandskills@jisc.ac.uk
Website: https://support.ebooksforfe.jisc.ac.uk/