Welcome to the February 2024 issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. Feedback on titles for renewal A huge thanks to everyone who responded with feedback on the titles for potential renewal this year – we received 48 scored spreadsheets. To give you an indication of the results, here are the top 3 titles available […]
Welcome to the January 2024 issue of our e-books for FE newsletter, and a brand new year. We hope the bumper seasonal offering of storms didn’t prevent you from travelling to friends and family. ProQuest training session webinars Recordings of the December training sessions given by ProQuest are now available on their e-books for FE […]
Welcome to the December 2023 issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. We wish you all a happy holidays! Arrayed in neat tables below Your usage revealed by the row. The goose may be fat But one juicy stat Is enough to make Santa yo-ho. ProQuest training sessions A reminder that there are two ProQuest […]
Welcome to the November 2023 issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. We have seen an increase in e-books usage this term – there was a jump of 18% this September compared to last, and 8% in October compared to last. Hopefully this uptake is being experienced at service-level, and the new titles we purchased […]
Welcome to the October 2023 issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. With the new term we have seen a bounce in e-book usage compared to September 2022: an increase of 18%. To aid discovery and increase usage, a reminder that you should now have bibliographic records for the new e-book titles loaded into your […]
Promoting e-books for FE has never been easier with our new range of promotional materials. Below you will find links to downloadable zip files, PowerPoint files, PDFs and Word documents. To get you started, you can download a guide on how to use the promotional materials available further down this page. The print assets have been […]
The following case studies were carried out in 2017 and first published in December 2018. They are no longer available on the original Jisc FE & Skills web site, but are still of interest: they provide first-hand accounts of the value of e-books and other Jisc subscription resources to FE college library staff, students, teachers, […]
Welcome to the September 2023 issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. Our new e-book titles went live on Ebook Central on 1st September, so please promote the new content to teaching staff. The Excel file with full collection details is available here. If this link doesn’t work for you in Chrome, copy and paste […]
Full details of the e-books for FE collection are now confirmed for 2023-2024, and you can download the Excel file. The new titles for 2023 are those with collection number 14 in column J. Please circulate to teaching staff to highlight what may be of interest: subject terms are in column I, so this can […]
Welcome to the August 2023 issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. If you’re reading this it means you’re no longer on holiday – but time and tide wait for no librarian and a new term beckons! We look forward to communicating and collaborating with you all again in 2023-2024. Quarterly statistics, May-July 2023 The […]