Insight into using digital media - Jisc Collections
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JISC Collections licenses and purchases resources for higher education and further education institutions in the UK to save institutions time and money. They provide a catalogue of resources available by subscription on their website. Some of their key resources highlighted include ebooks available for free until 2014, Primal Pictures anatomy images available free until 2015, journal archives containing over 600 journal titles, and historic books from 1475-1900. Commercial resources like General OneFile, InfoTrac, and Britannica Online are also available at a negotiated discount. For any additional questions, contact s.gibbens@jisc-collections.ac.uk.
Insight into using digital media - Jisc Collections
- 1. JISC Collections Content for FE and Skills • June 2013 • Scott Gibbens
- 2. Who are Jisc Collections? • JISC Collections licence and purchase resources for HE and the FE sector, to save time and money • Our JISC Collections website has a comprehensive catalogue of the resources available to subscribe to – usually the college librarian is person who manages this process. http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk • Our resources sometimes have access restricted – usually by IP Address (so we recognise the address of the computer) or by Federated Access (sometimes known as Shibboleth or OpenAthens) • This year we have added a number of new resources as well as some low cost subscriptions that I would like to highlight to you now
- 3. JISC Collections Resources for FE JISC eCollections Ebooks for FE Primal Pictures Commercial Resources
- 4. Commercial Resources • These resources are not free but we have negotiated a discount for FE • General OneFile and InfoTrac (241 colleges subscribing) – Content includes more than 7,800 full-text titles; more than 3,600 refereed journals; and hundreds of newspapers total of in excess of 12,500 titles in all • Britannica Online (121 colleges) • E-law Student (88 colleges) – material aimed at A Level Law students
- 5. E-books for FE • 3000 titles bought – free of charge until 2014 • 35 million pages viewed • Currently undertaking a procurement exercise for more titles that will be available by the end of the summer • Looking to see if we can extend the free of charge access to the collection for another year
- 6. Primal Pictures • Primal Pictures has been licensed nationally on behalf of all FE institutions. • The resource features medically accurate 3D images of human anatomy, and helps teachers and learners in medical science, healthcare and sports studies, amongst others. • Free for all FE Colleges until August 2015 (central purchase by JISC Collections) • Over 230 colleges have registered for access, which would ordinarily cost them £1000 a year.
- 7. Journal Archives • Archive of over 600 journals titles in full text • Publishers: Brill, CUP, ICE, IOP, OUP, PAO, RSC and T&F • Not a rolling archive – all journals have fixed start and end dates • Can search interface of browse by A-Z • Can also link in to link resolvers if you have one. • Quick Look: http://www.jiscjournalarchives.ac.uk
- 8. JISC Historic Books • 350,000 books from 1475 – 1900 • Original scanned images of the books – with searchable full text included. • Images of the books can be downloaded as PDFs – no limit on the download amount • Subscription fee to gain access to JISC Journal Archives AND JISC Historic Books. Annual Subscription based on JISC Banding – From £104 (Band J) to £305 (Band C)
- 9. Questions? If you want any more information on any of the resources or anything else about JISC Collections resources for FE please contact me •s.gibbens@jisc-collections.ac.uk
- 10. Questions? If you want any more information on any of the resources or anything else about JISC Collections resources for FE please contact me •s.gibbens@jisc-collections.ac.uk