Newsletter issue 5: January 2019
Welcome to the fifth edition of the e-books for FE newsletter. The team hope that you are settled into the new term, and keeping warm at home with a good e-book in this snowy weather.
This edition of the newsletter brings you the latest news and updates to the service, as well as special features and the each month’s top 20 users and titles. This month we are bringing exciting news about new e-books now available on the Ebook Central™ platform, as well as your usual favourite features.
We always love compiling our monthly usage figures, because we want to see who has been reading what. This month we were thrilled to see 443 users of e-books for FE on New Years Day! Well done to our hard-working students who were studying over the festive season.
As always, we value your feedback and suggestions – please email these to content.feandskills@jisc.ac.uk
In the January issue…
New titles added in January
Top 20 users– January 2019
Top 20 titles – January 2019
Most used e-book of the month
Function of the month
Training and events
The last word
New titles added in January
We are excited to announce some new additions this month to the e-books for FE collection:
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Title |
Author |
ISBN |
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BTEC Nationals Information Technology Student Book + Activebook |
Jenny Phillips, Alan Jarvis, Mark Fishpool, Richard McGill, Tim Cook, Mr David Atkinson-Beaumont |
9781292140414 |
|
BTEC National Computing Student Book |
Jenny Phillips, Alan Jarvis, Mark Fishpool, Richard McGill, Tim Cook, David Atkinson-Beaumont |
9781292166926 |
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Revise BTEC National Animal Management Revision Guide |
Leila Oates, Laura Johnson, Natalia Betts |
9781292150000 |
MARC records for these titles should be available to download from ProQuest. For guidance on how to download MARC records, please see our guide to MARC records on the e-books for FE support site.
Top 20 users – January 2019
Well done to all users who reached a spot in the first top 20 of 2019, and a special congratulations to the top 5. The FE and skills team thank you for your promotion and use of e-books for FE. We would also like to welcome some new entries into this month’s top 20: Barton Peveril College, South Thames College and Gower College Swansea.
If any top 20 institutions have any tips to share on how you promote e-books for FE to teaching practitioners and learners, we would love to hear from you. Please get in touch with your top tips at: content.feandskills@jisc.ac.uk
| # | Institution | User sessions |
| 1 | The Cheadle and Marple College Network | 2419 |
| 2 | Walsall College | 1937 |
| 3 | Farnborough Sixth Form College | 1745 |
| 4 | Uxbridge College | 1621 |
| 5 | Capital City College Group – WKCIC Group | 1616 |
| 6 | Suffolk One | 1476 |
| 7 | South & City College Birmingham | 1462 |
| 8 | Varndean College | 1347 |
| 9 | Bedford College | 1216 |
| 10 | Grwp Llandrillo Menai | 1206 |
| 11 | Neath Port Talbot College | 1168 |
| 12 | Coleg Cambria | 1125 |
| 13 | Stockton Riverside College | 1116 |
| 14 | Leyton Sixth Form College | 1082 |
| 15 | The Trafford College Group | 1071 |
| 16 | South Eastern Regional College | 1051 |
| 17 | Blackpool Sixth Form College | 1021 |
| 18 | Barton Peveril College | 1018 |
| 19 | South Thames College | 965 |
| 20 | Gower College Swansea | 932 |
Mergers: If your institution has recently merged with another, ProQuest may not have the most current merger information and your merger may not be reflected in the usage data. Please check with ProQuest and request that they update your account to reflect the merger. Their e-book support contact address is: ebooksupport@proquest.com
Top 20 titles – January 2019
| # | Title | User sessions |
| 1 | BTEC Level 3 National Health and Social Care: Student Book 1 | 5822 |
| 2 | Cache Level 3 Child Care and Education | 3536 |
| 3 | BTEC Level 3 National Business, Book 1 | 2770 |
| 4 | BTEC Level 3 National Health and Social Care: Student Book 2 | 2383 |
| 5 | BTEC Level 3 National Business Student Book 1 | 2267 |
| 6 | BTEC Level 3 National Public Services Student Book 1 | 1710 |
| 7 | BTEC Nationals Health and Social Care Student Book 1 | 1706 |
| 8 | BTEC Level 3 National Business Student Book 2 | 1460 |
| 9 | BTEC Level 3 Business Book 2 | 1153 |
| 10 | BTEC Level 3 National Applied Science Student Book | 1001 |
| 11 | BTEC First Business Student Book | 964 |
| 12 | BTEC Nationals Health and Social Care Student Book 2 : For the 2016 specifications | 874 |
| 13 | Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour 7th Edition | 871 |
| 14 | BTEC Level 3 National Construction and the Built Environment Student Book | 870 |
| 15 | BTEC Level 3 National Travel and Tourism Student Book 1 | 801 |
| 16 | BTEC Nationals Applied Science Student Book 1 | 800 |
| 17 | CACHE Level 2 Introduction to Early Years Education and Care | 777 |
| 18 | AQA A-level Psychology Book 1 | 738 |
| 19 | BTEC Nationals Business Student Book 1 | 722 |
| 20 | BTEC Level 3 National Public Services Student Book 2 | 709 |
Most used e-book of the month
Title: BTEC Level 3 National Health and Social Care: Student Book 1
Author: Mary Whitehouse, Neil Moonie, Carolyn Aldworth and Marilyn Billingham,
ISBN: 9781846907463
For the FIFTH month running, the most used e-book was BTEC Level 3 National Health and Social Care: Student Book 1. This month it received a huge 8,267 uses, but the second most-used e-book Cache Level 3 Child Care and Education is catching up with 7,352. Will it retain the top spot in the February top 20? Find out next month.
Function of the month
Downloading e-books from Ebook Central™
Our January function of the month is the download function. Did you know that users can download e-books from Ebook Central™ for up to 21 days? After this date, the links will expire, but users can download them again. This is handy for students who want to print out important chapters, or have the e-book handy on a mobile device when not connected to the internet. To find out how to enhance your students’ learning with this fantastic function, watch this video from ProQuest, taken from their Ebook Central™ YouTube playlist.
Training and events
ProQuest Ebook Central™ training webinars
We hope that all members who attended the Ebook Central™ webinars found them to be useful and valuable. We would love to hear any feedback you have about the webinars. For those members who were unable to attend the sessions, ProQuest recorded the sessions and these will soon be available to watch at your convenience. Finally, for members who have a specific training need on Ebook Central, ProQuest are happy to deliver specialist one-to-one training on aspects of Ebook Central™ and LibCentral™. If you think you or your colleagues might benefit from this specialised training, do get in touch with us at content.feandskills@jisc.ac.uk.
Digifest 2019
Booking is now open for Digifest 2019, which will take place from Tuesday 12th to Wednesday 13th March 2019, at The International Conference Centre, Birmingham.
Digifest is the leading UK education technology event for middle and senior-level managers, and those leading change across the further and higher education sectors. The event is a unique opportunity to see, hear and network with leaders at the forefront of the edtech industry, sharing the latest trends in further and higher education and thinking through an innovative, motivating and challenging agenda of thought-leading keynote sessions, hands-on workshops and lightning talks. Digifest delegates are actively encouraged to mould, shape and immerse themselves in the event conversation. You’ll have the chance to experience the latest advances in technology to question, inform, inspire and learn, which you can then feed back into your organisation. Digifest is free to attend for all Jisc member organisations.
The last word
Copyright challenge on Internet Archive’s e-book loans
This month, we have been debating the legality of the Internet Archive’s e-book loans, which the Society of Authors deem ‘unlawful.’
The Internet Archive was established in 1996 in the USA, with the intention of preserving internet web-pages for future generations. Through it’s Open Library, the Internet Archive also offers users the chance to borrow hundreds of thousands of e-books – for free. Many of the e-books are from bestselling authors who are not out of copyright such as Kate Atkinson and Man-Booker Prize winning Hilary Mantel. The Internet Archive began digitising books because of the growing disparity between public libraries across the UK; they believe that digitising these books enables all readers to have access to a good quality of reading material.
The Society of Authors deem this to be an infringement of copyright, because under current UK legislation, lending must be authorised by the owner of the work’s copyright.
Read the full story here.
Should the Internet Archive be allowed to loan e-books, or is this unfair to the authors behind them? We would love to hear your thoughts – get in touch or Tweet us.
If you have a suggestion for February’s the last word, please get in touch at content.feandskills@jisc.ac.uk
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