Welcome to the February 2023 issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. Jisc Digifest, 7-8 March The programme of events for this year’s Digifest is now available at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/digifest The venue is Birmingham ICC, and tickets can also be purchased for online attendance. Themes include digital strategy and skills, virtual reality, AI, curriculum design and […]
Welcome to the January 2023 issue of our e-books for FE newsletter, a little later than usual due to the seasonal break. We hope you survived the holidays and began the new term stress- and chilblain-free. e-books for renewal survey A huge thanks to everyone who responded to the request for feedback on the e-book […]
Welcome to the December 2022 issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. It’s time for a library-themed Christmas quiz! Eight questions below – no Googling allowed – answers will be circulated via the e-books for FE JiscMail list on 14 December. 1. Approximately how many books are held at the British Library storage site in […]
Welcome to the November 2022 issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. All the leaves are brown and the nights are fair drawing in. Staff changes at Jisc After six years in the FE and Skills Content team, with overall product ownership of e-books for FE, Pete Collins is moving on to a new job […]
Welcome to the October issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. The first week of the month has been Shakespearean insofar as it brings to mind the song from Twelfth Night which includes the refrain “The rain it raineth every day.” We hope the start of the new term and student inductions have been going […]
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 […]
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 […]