From 1st September 2023 there will be some changes to our policy for secure access and authentication protocols – changes which will apply to Jisc e-books for FE. Improving member security Federated Access is Jisc’s gold standard for access management and has benefits across multiple areas of your organisation, including: Strengthening cyber security Improving student […]
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Welcome to the September issue of our e-books for FE newsletter, and the start of a new academic year! This year, the FE & Skills Content Team will be working with the Jisc training team to provide webinars and online guides around e-book best practice, aimed specifically at teaching staff and blended learning approaches. We […]
Welcome to the August issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. It’s been another record-breaking academic year for e-book usage, with a total of 1,235,196 user sessions: an increase of 3.4% over 2020-2021. We aim to do even better in 2022-2023, so please let us know what we can do to improve your college’s usage […]
Welcome to the July issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. We had a strong finish to the closing stages of the academic year, with June e-book usage up 46% compared to June 2021. New e-book licence for 2022-2025 The new e-book licence for 2022-2025 is now available on the Licence Subscription Manager (LSM) at […]
Welcome to the June issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. We had the highest May usage ever, with an increase of 8% over May 2021, and this put the number of user sessions for England alone at over one million for the academic year so far, with two months left to go. A huge […]
Welcome to the May issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. ProQuest training webinars: LibCentral and Ebook Central ProQuest will be running training webinars on LibCentral and Ebook Central in May – to register, please follow the relevant links to the live sessions (10 May for LibCentral and 12 May for Ebook Central) on this […]
Welcome to the April issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. Usage of e-books continues to rise, with a 7% increase in March 2022 compared to March 2021: an all-time high for March usage since Jisc e-books have been available. e-book procurement 2022 The procurement Focus Group, comprising 15 members of FE library staff from […]
Welcome to the March 2022 e-books for FE newsletter. FE LRC Community of Practice There are three upcoming community drop-in sessions in March, via Teams. Outlook invitations have been sent out to community members with the Teams meeting link: if you’re a community member and you haven’t received the invite (sometimes they can end up […]
Welcome to the February 2022 e-books for FE newsletter. FE LRC Community of Practice We had the first drop-in session of the year on 26 January, on the theme of ‘Library online presence’, with an attendance of over a hundred FE library staff – off to a flying start! Joy McLean, Senior Librarian at West […]
Happy new year! And welcome to the January 2022 e-books for FE newsletter. e-books procurement 2022 We are now starting the annual e-books procurement process, and taking a different approach from previous years. Rather than asking library staff to provide us with spreadsheets of wanted titles, we would like your feedback on what you consider […]