The e-books for FE project will provide every FE college in the UK with:
1. Significant Core Collections of e-books relevant to the FE curriculum across the UK as taught in FE:
2990 e-book titles are available free of charge to every FE college in the UK, under unlimited concurrent access. Unlimited, simultaneous user access means that unlike the print world students do not have to wait for the hard copies to be returned by other students or borrow under short loan conditions.
The e-books are available under the terms of the JISC model licence e.g. Staff and students can incorporate parts in teaching learning materials whether electronic or paper. This includes course packs, presentations, VLEs, mobile devices, project work.
2. Access to a digital library 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via a robust e-books platform.
The e-books in the collection are hosted via the ebrary e-books platform, for five years four months. There is no charge to access the platform. The e-books platform adheres to relevant information standards for efficient information retrieval, discovery, and management. The more information on standards compliant and the platform functionality please visit : http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/catalogue/ebooksforfe
3. JISC Collections’ e-select Framework Agreement to enable FE colleges to build upon the centrally funded Core Collections to allow collection building at a local level, to ensure that every FE college in the UK can provide its students with a highly relevant, usable and accessible digital library. Colleges will be able to locally purchase additional e-book titles. Assessors from FE colleges will evaluate and rank the e-books submitted for inclusion on the following criteria:
§ Relevance to qualifications taken in FE
§ Demonstrable discounts for FE colleges
JISC Collections will continue to work with colleges and everyone in the e-books supply chain to look at how we can sustain the adoption of e-books in FE into the future and provide FE colleges with the e-book titles they need.