JISC RSC YH Exchange News

JISC Collections are working with JISC and EDINA to review the provision of digital image, film and sound content to their members.
The content they have purchased / licensed is currently within 4 discreet collections:
1. Film & Sound Online – http://www.filmandsound.ac.uk
2. Education Image Gallery – http://edina.ac.uk/eig
3. NewsFilm Online – http://www.nfo.ac.uk
4. Digital Images for Education – http://imagesforeducation.org.uk
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JISC Collections would like to invite you to participate in a survey of everyone involved in the provision of learning materials and their use in Further Education colleges in the UK.
JISC Collections has commissioned a team of consultants to undertake work on how e-books might best be provided to the FE sector and this survey [...]

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New research conducted by Ipsos MORI shows how academic library and IT services are budgeting for today’s economic conditions, but are in need of help to scenario plan for the long term impact of the recession.
‘The impact of the economic recession on university library and IT services’ report, commissioned by JISC, SCONUL and UCISA, contains [...]

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JISC Collections invites proposals to explore the metrics that could be used for the redistribution of costs between all the libraries participating in bloc purchase and to create a model that demonstrates the cost benefits of participating in a bloc purchase.  In this context a ‘bloc’ could be all of the [...]

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From Gorbachev to global warming: education experts choose images for JISC Collections archive
Education experts have taken the first steps towards building a JISC Collections archive containing over 500 hours of film and 56,000 photos documenting modern history.
An expert panel consisting of e-learning advisors, librarians, academics and image specialists, who collectively represent over a hundred years of [...]

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The e-books for FE project provides 2990 e-book titles free of charge to FE colleges under unlimited simultaneous access.
This means all students have access to a digital library 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The e-books within the collection include BTEC textbooks, study guides, through to textbooks endorsed by the Scottish Qualifications bodies. [...]

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The world’s largest digital library of 18th century printed books grows even larger for UK academic community
Following an agreement between JISC Collections and Gale, part of Cengage Learning, Part 2 of the ambitious digitisation project, Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), is now available free of charge to all UK academic institutions currently subscribing to ECCO.
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JISC has funded an ‘e-books for Further Education (FE)’ project to make over 3000 e-books freely available to every college and sixth form in the UK.
Over the next five years, the project, which also received funding from the Learning Skills Council (LSC), will enable all students in FE in the UK to access online course [...]

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JISC Collections invite proposals for a review of the business models that will enable further education students to pay for the e-books needed to support their studies.  The models may involve purchase of e-books by further education institutions, with a cost recovery model or further education institutions offering discounts to students who purchase electronic books [...]

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JISC Collections is seeking suitably qualified people to take part in the evaluation process for this Digital Images for Education project.
The Digital Images for Education Project comprises three separate tenders to supply still and moving images for the long-term use by the UK education community (schools, Further Education, and Higher Education). The three tenders are:

Still [...]

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