Newsletter issue 6: February 2019
Welcome to the sixth edition of the e-books for FE newsletter. The team hope that you had a restful half term and are enjoying the longer and lighter days.
This edition of the newsletter brings you the latest news and updates to the service, as well as special features and this 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.
As always, we value your feedback and suggestions – please email these to content.feandskills@jisc.ac.uk
New titles added in February
We are excited to announce some new additions this month to the e-books for FE collection:
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Title |
Author |
ISBN |
| Revise BTEC National Business Revision Guide | Jon & Diane Sutherland, Steve Jakubowski | 9781292230566 |
| BTEC First in Public Services Student Book | Debra Gray | 9781446910818 |
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 – February 2019
Well done to all users who reached a spot in the top 20, 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 congratulate our new top user, Varndean College!
If any top 20 institutions have some 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
| # | Organisation | User sessions |
| 1 | Varndean College | 1682 |
| 2 | The Cheadle and Marple College Network | 1481 |
| 3 | Uxbridge College | 1363 |
| 4 | Farnborough Sixth Form College | 1248 |
| 5 | South Eastern Regional College | 1243 |
| 6 | South & City College Birmingham | 1238 |
| 7 | Walsall College | 1211 |
| 8 | Suffolk One | 1123 |
| 9 | Capital City College Group – WKCIC Group | 1090 |
| 10 | Gower College Swansea | 1089 |
| 11 | Grwp Llandrillo Menai | 1039 |
| 12 | Neath Port Talbot College | 972 |
| 13 | Leyton Sixth Form College | 959 |
| 14 | Coleg Cambria | 884 |
| 15 | Stockton Riverside College | 877 |
| 16 | South Thames College | 851 |
| 17 | West Nottinghamshire College | 808 |
| 18 | Buckinghamshire College Group | 807 |
| 19 | Tower Hamlets College | 802 |
| 20 | North West Regional College | 783 |
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 – February 2019
| # | Title | User sessions |
| 1 | BTEC Level 3 National Health and Social Care: Student Book 1 | 6208 |
| 2 | Cache Level 3 Child Care and Education | 5311 |
| 3 | BTEC Level 3 National Business, Book 1 | 3941 |
| 4 | BTEC Level 3 National Health and Social Care: Student Book 2 | 3340 |
| 5 | BTEC Nationals Health and Social Care Student Book 1 | 3087 |
| 6 | BTEC Level 3 National Business Student Book 1 | 2383 |
| 7 | BTEC Level 3 National Business Student Book 2 | 1715 |
| 8 | BTEC Nationals Health and Social Care Student Book 2 : For the 2016 specifications | 1627 |
| 9 | BTEC Nationals Business Student Book 1 | 1456 |
| 10 | BTEC Level 3 National Public Services Student Book 1 | 1437 |
| 11 | BTEC Level 3 Business Book 2 | 1402 |
| 12 | CACHE Level 2 Introduction to Early Years Education and Care | 1349 |
| 13 | OCR Psychology for A Level Book 1 | 1170 |
| 14 | BTEC Level 3 National Applied Science Student Book | 1149 |
| 15 | BTEC Nationals Applied Science Student Book 1 | 1067 |
| 16 | BTEC Level 3 National Public Services Student Book 2 | 1036 |
| 17 | BTEC Level 3 National Travel and Tourism Student Book 1 | 1035 |
| 18 | BTEC First Business Student Book | 1023 |
| 19 | Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour 7th Edition | 988 |
| 20 | AQA A-level Psychology Book 2 | 940 |
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 SIXTH month running, the most used e-book was BTEC Level 3 National Health and Social Care: Student Book 1.
Training and events
ProQuest training webinar recording
If you missed the opportunity to take part in the ProQuest Ebook Central™ webinars in January, the recording is now available for you to download. Simply click here and select playback or download.
The last word
Mother language day
On Thursday 21st February, the United Nations celebrated Mother Language Day, which aims to promote the use of languages and prevent languages from dying out in an increasingly globalized world. Languages are essential to promoting cultural diversity, which is something that we are passionate about here at e-books for FE – Bulgarian, Spanish and Irish are just some of the languages that are spoken by our team!
To promote this important celebration, we created a language translation guide, which will guide you through the step-by-step process of translating our e-books on Ebook Central™ into other languages, using the Google Translate plugin. We hope that this guide will help users to overcome language barriers that might prevent some users from accessing e-books for FE.
We would love to hear your thoughts on using this guide – get in touch or Tweet us.
If you have a suggestion for March’s the last word, please get in touch at content.feandskills@jisc.ac.uk
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