Newsletter issue 6: May 2019
May 2019
Welcome to the ninth edition of the e-books for FE newsletter. We hope that you are finding time to relax in this busy time of the academic year. This edition of the newsletter brings you the latest news and updates to the e-books for FE service, as well as special features and this month’s top 20 users and e-book titles.
As always, we value your feedback and suggestions – please email these to content.feandskills@jisc.ac.uk
Top 20 users – May 2019
Well done to all organisations 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. Congratulations to Suffolk One, a new entry at #1!
If any top 20 organisations have some tips to share on how you promote e-books for FE to teaching practitioners and learners, we would love to feature you and showcase your work on promoting digital resources to your students. Please get in touch if you would like to be featured at content.feandskills@jisc.ac.uk
| # | Organisation | User sessions |
| 1 | Suffolk One | 1944 |
| 2 | The Cheadle and Marple College Network | 1781 |
| 3 | Uxbridge College | 1634 |
| 4 | Capital City College Group – WKCIC Group | 1349 |
| 5 | Varndean College | 1323 |
| 6 | South & City College Birmingham | 1287 |
| 7 | Grwp Llandrillo Menai | 1261 |
| 8 | Sandwell College | 1197 |
| 9 | Coleg Cambria | 1093 |
| 10 | Farnborough Sixth Form College | 1086 |
| 11 | Cardiff and Vale College | 1036 |
| 12 | Walsall College | 1013 |
| 13 | Leyton Sixth Form College | 970 |
| 14 | Chesterfield College | 967 |
| 15 | Neath Port Talbot College | 905 |
| 16 | Newham Sixth Form College | 839 |
| 17 | Tower Hamlets College | 838 |
| 18 | Bolton Sixth Form College | 807 |
| 19 | Thomas Rotherham College | 804 |
| 20 | Gower College Swansea | 796 |
Mergers: If your organisation 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 – April 2019
| # | Title | User sessions |
| 1 | BTEC Level 3 National Health and Social Care: Student Book 1 | 6854 |
| 2 | CACHE Level 3 Child Care and Education (Early Years Educator) | 6621 |
| 3 | BTEC Level 3 National Health and Social Care: Student Book 2 | 4398 |
| 4 | BTEC Level 3 National Business, Book 1 | 3673 |
| 5 | BTEC Nationals Health and Social Care Student Book 1 | 3070 |
| 6 | BTEC Level 3 National Business Student Book 1 | 2674 |
| 7 | BTEC Level 3 Business Book 2 | 2502 |
| 8 | BTEC Level 3 National Public Services Student Book 1 | 2057 |
| 9 | BTEC Level 3 National Public Services Student Book 2 | 1885 |
| 10 | BTEC First Business Student Book | 1755 |
| 11 | BTEC Level 3 National Business Student Book 2 | 1724 |
| 12 | CACHE Level 2 Introduction to Early Years Education and Care | 1703 |
| 13 | BTEC Nationals Health and Social Care Student Book 2 : For the 2016 specifications | 1665 |
| 14 | BTEC Level 3 National Applied Science Student Book | 1516 |
| 15 | BTEC Nationals Applied Science Student Book 1 | 1417 |
| 16 | BTEC Nationals Business Student Book 1 | 1217 |
| 17 | AQA A-level Psychology Book 1 | 1082 |
| 18 | OCR Psychology for A Level Book 1 | 1023 |
| 19 | BTEC Level 3 National Travel and Tourism Student Book 1 | 954 |
| 20 | BTEC Nationals Sport Student Book 1 | 935 |
Page-turner of the month
Title: Counselling Skills and Theory
Author: Margaret Hough
ISBN: 9781471806452
This month, we have selected Counselling Skills and Theory as the page-turner of the month. This title has shown one of the biggest jumps in usage this month, with 280 uses – 80 more users sessions than last month!
Click here if you haven’t checked out out yet.
FE and skills training service webinars
You may be aware that the FE and skills team are launching three new skills services. Throughout June, there will be webinars every Wednesday at 14:00pm to give an overview of each individual service.
- To register for the education and childcare training webinar on Wednesday 12th June at 14.00pm, please click here.
- To register for the digital and IT training webinar on Wednesday 19th June at 14.00pm, please click here.
- To register for the construction training webinar on Wednesday 26th June at 14.00pm, please click.
Look out for details of how to subscribe to the free trial next week on the FE content Jiscmail.
Support queries
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