A range of business models for e-textbooks will be evaluated through four different trials at 13 higher education institutions. The trials will involve the participation of eight major textbook publishers and three e-book aggregators, and the overall objective is to identify realistic and sustainable business models.
The trials start this month and, in order to reflect the real live environment as far as possible, they will run until the end of the 2009/10 academic year.
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Showing posts with label JISC national e-books observatory project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JISC national e-books observatory project. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
e-books: taking your ideas forward
Are you wondering what happened to all the data gathered from the E-books Roadshow? Interested in experimenting with new models for e-books? Still thinking about MARC records? Read about how the e-books working group is working to take forward your ideas.
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Friday, April 18, 2008
JISC national e-books observatory project: findings from the first User Survey is now available
Higher Education (HE) libraries want to provide their students with online access to their course texts, free at the point of use. Such equality of access is deemed to be a responsibility of the library, particularly in light of widening participation agendas, increasing student numbers and the expectations of staff and students. The JISC national e-books observatory project aims to stimulate the provision of course texts online through the library by making freely available course texts online in four subject areas (business and management studies, engineering, medicine and media studies) and gathering much needed evidence.
JISC has funded CIBER to gather all this evidence through a Deep Log Analysis (DLA) Study. The DLA study not only analyses the log data to identify real time patterns of discovery and use for the 36 course texts JISC has made freely available, but gathers quantitative data from users through surveys and case studies.
This first user survey provides an initial benchmark against which to measure changes as the JISC national e-books observatory project progresses.
Further details can be found here.
JISC has funded CIBER to gather all this evidence through a Deep Log Analysis (DLA) Study. The DLA study not only analyses the log data to identify real time patterns of discovery and use for the 36 course texts JISC has made freely available, but gathers quantitative data from users through surveys and case studies.
This first user survey provides an initial benchmark against which to measure changes as the JISC national e-books observatory project progresses.
Further details can be found here.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Take part in the JISC National E-textbook debate
JISC National E-textbook Debate - asking big questions
14th April 2008, 5.30 – 7pm, Birmingham
http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/events/national-e-textbook-debate
To attend as a member of the audience please complete the registration form by Tuesday 8th April 2008 .
Over the last two months JISC Collections has been running workshops up and down the country looking at the state of the e-books market, asking librarians what their vision for the future of e-textbooks is and thinking about how we can all, libraries, publishers and JISC Collections get there. Well having heard the librarians’ point of view, we decided that it would be a good idea to hear from publishers as well. On the 14th April JISC Collections will be holding the National E-textbook Debate to let both sides air the arguments in an open and informal setting. So if you would like to come and join the live audience, please complete the online registration form.
Further details can be found here.
14th April 2008, 5.30 – 7pm, Birmingham
http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/events/national-e-textbook-debate
To attend as a member of the audience please complete the registration form by Tuesday 8th April 2008 .
Over the last two months JISC Collections has been running workshops up and down the country looking at the state of the e-books market, asking librarians what their vision for the future of e-textbooks is and thinking about how we can all, libraries, publishers and JISC Collections get there. Well having heard the librarians’ point of view, we decided that it would be a good idea to hear from publishers as well. On the 14th April JISC Collections will be holding the National E-textbook Debate to let both sides air the arguments in an open and informal setting. So if you would like to come and join the live audience, please complete the online registration form.
Further details can be found here.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
The E-books UK Roadshow: invitation to attend
In January and February 2008 JISC Collections is running 11 workshops across the UK as part of the JISC national e-books observatory project.
It is no secret that the multiplicity of models, pricing options and access routes to e-books is over complicated and confusing. Not only is it difficult to decide what pricing model and access route is best suited to your institution, but it is also difficult to understand why the publisher places such a high value on an e-book and at the same demands licensing that restricts the real value from being achieved.
The 11 workshops will provide an update on the national e-books observatory and use examples from the project to show how publishers valued their e-books. Attendees will then have the opportunity to discuss what they consider the value of e-books to be in terms of pricing, impact on teaching and learning, what they consider good value and what pricing models would reflect this value. The afternoon session of the workshop will focus on addressing the question of what would need to happen for libraries to give up reliance on print texts and adopt e-books.
Further details can be found here.
It is no secret that the multiplicity of models, pricing options and access routes to e-books is over complicated and confusing. Not only is it difficult to decide what pricing model and access route is best suited to your institution, but it is also difficult to understand why the publisher places such a high value on an e-book and at the same demands licensing that restricts the real value from being achieved.
The 11 workshops will provide an update on the national e-books observatory and use examples from the project to show how publishers valued their e-books. Attendees will then have the opportunity to discuss what they consider the value of e-books to be in terms of pricing, impact on teaching and learning, what they consider good value and what pricing models would reflect this value. The afternoon session of the workshop will focus on addressing the question of what would need to happen for libraries to give up reliance on print texts and adopt e-books.
Further details can be found here.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
National experiment about the impact of e-books on student learning and publishing sales
JISC has funded a collection of e-books that will be freely available to students in all UK universities.
The aim of the JISC national e-books observatory project is to gather much needed evidence:
* Evidence for publishers about the impact of e-books on traditional print sales to students
* Evidence for publishers about how to create exciting e-books that will engage the digital native
* Evidence for publishers and libraries about the pricing models for the future
* Evidence for libraries about how to promote the use of e-books
The e-books, chosen, include some of the most popular texts in Business and Management Studies, Medicine, Engineering and Media Studies.
JISC is funding CIBER1 to study just what happens when these books are freely available to students. How will they find them? Will they use them? Will the e-books impact on their learning? Will medical students behave differently to Media Studies students? Will the Business and Management students stop buying from the bookshops? Will Engineering students use the e-books more or less than the other groups?
Publishers are collaborating by providing these e-books via Ingram Digital Group’s MyiLibrary platform and the Books@Ovid platform. Funding by JISC enables these publishers to experiment in a managed environment and mitigates any risk of revenue loss.
Dr Hazel Woodward, University Librarian at Cranfield University, and chair of the JISC national e-books observatory project’s advisory board, said: ‘e-books have enormous potential as a resource for students. But it’s fair to say that that potential has so far been untapped. The project will we hope have a major impact on the e-book publishing market and in time on libraries across the UK as they struggle to keep up with demand for taught course texts. We hope that university libraries will all become involved in this innovative and exciting project as they as well as publishers have a great deal to gain.’
Robert Kimberley of Wolters Kluwer Health, one of the publishers to have submitted e-books for the project, welcomed its launch, saying: ‘We are delighted to be a part of this important project. Its commitment to increasing our understanding of the use of e-books is something that is especially welcome to us and Wolters Kluwer is looking forward to seeing its e-books used in such far-reaching and innovative ways and for the long-term benefit of libraries, users and publishers.’
James Gray at MyiLibrary said that this ‘information will provide a considerable evidence base to help inform our decisions about the construction of e-books, their promotion to the community, to suggest how disciplinary differences might impact on their use. We hope this evidence base will also be of immense importance to university lecturers and librarians in their efforts to make available core reading list e-books that support HE taught course students.’
For further information on the e-books now available to all universities, please go to http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/jiscebooksproject
1 CENTRE FOR INFORMATION BEHAVIOUR AND THE EVALUATION OF RESEARCH
The aim of the JISC national e-books observatory project is to gather much needed evidence:
* Evidence for publishers about the impact of e-books on traditional print sales to students
* Evidence for publishers about how to create exciting e-books that will engage the digital native
* Evidence for publishers and libraries about the pricing models for the future
* Evidence for libraries about how to promote the use of e-books
The e-books, chosen, include some of the most popular texts in Business and Management Studies, Medicine, Engineering and Media Studies.
JISC is funding CIBER1 to study just what happens when these books are freely available to students. How will they find them? Will they use them? Will the e-books impact on their learning? Will medical students behave differently to Media Studies students? Will the Business and Management students stop buying from the bookshops? Will Engineering students use the e-books more or less than the other groups?
Publishers are collaborating by providing these e-books via Ingram Digital Group’s MyiLibrary platform and the Books@Ovid platform. Funding by JISC enables these publishers to experiment in a managed environment and mitigates any risk of revenue loss.
Dr Hazel Woodward, University Librarian at Cranfield University, and chair of the JISC national e-books observatory project’s advisory board, said: ‘e-books have enormous potential as a resource for students. But it’s fair to say that that potential has so far been untapped. The project will we hope have a major impact on the e-book publishing market and in time on libraries across the UK as they struggle to keep up with demand for taught course texts. We hope that university libraries will all become involved in this innovative and exciting project as they as well as publishers have a great deal to gain.’
Robert Kimberley of Wolters Kluwer Health, one of the publishers to have submitted e-books for the project, welcomed its launch, saying: ‘We are delighted to be a part of this important project. Its commitment to increasing our understanding of the use of e-books is something that is especially welcome to us and Wolters Kluwer is looking forward to seeing its e-books used in such far-reaching and innovative ways and for the long-term benefit of libraries, users and publishers.’
James Gray at MyiLibrary said that this ‘information will provide a considerable evidence base to help inform our decisions about the construction of e-books, their promotion to the community, to suggest how disciplinary differences might impact on their use. We hope this evidence base will also be of immense importance to university lecturers and librarians in their efforts to make available core reading list e-books that support HE taught course students.’
For further information on the e-books now available to all universities, please go to http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/jiscebooksproject
1 CENTRE FOR INFORMATION BEHAVIOUR AND THE EVALUATION OF RESEARCH
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
JISC National E-books Observatory UK HE Consultation
http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/consultation/
Deadline Wednesday 18th July
The JISC national e-books observatory project aims to license for 2 YEARS ONLY collections of e-books that are core texts for UK HE taught course students in the following subject areas:
• Engineering
• Medicine (excluding mental health and nursing
• Media Studies
• Business and Management
JISC will fund publishers to make available a selection of their core e-books to ALL HE institutions FREE for the duration of the project (2 years). We have received a number of proposals from publishers and aggregators and each proposal included a list of e-books, but we need your expertise to identify which e-books are core texts and which will best support your students. We need to know this so that we can license the best e-books and create a CORE COLLECTION in each subject area.
To take part in the consultation please:
1. Read the introduction at: http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/consultation/
2. Rank the e-books that are core texts for your taught course students in the 4 subject areas. Please follow the instructions provided at http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/?page_id=46
3. Feedback about platform functionality, standards compliance etc. This will inform the licensing negotiations. Submit your feedback on these questions using the online form at http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/?page_id=47
Please do take part in the consultation. If you have any questions please contact JISC Collections on ebooks@jisc.ac.uk
For further information on the project please see www.jiscebooksproject.org
Deadline Wednesday 18th July
The JISC national e-books observatory project aims to license for 2 YEARS ONLY collections of e-books that are core texts for UK HE taught course students in the following subject areas:
• Engineering
• Medicine (excluding mental health and nursing
• Media Studies
• Business and Management
JISC will fund publishers to make available a selection of their core e-books to ALL HE institutions FREE for the duration of the project (2 years). We have received a number of proposals from publishers and aggregators and each proposal included a list of e-books, but we need your expertise to identify which e-books are core texts and which will best support your students. We need to know this so that we can license the best e-books and create a CORE COLLECTION in each subject area.
To take part in the consultation please:
1. Read the introduction at: http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/consultation/
2. Rank the e-books that are core texts for your taught course students in the 4 subject areas. Please follow the instructions provided at http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/?page_id=46
3. Feedback about platform functionality, standards compliance etc. This will inform the licensing negotiations. Submit your feedback on these questions using the online form at http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/?page_id=47
Please do take part in the consultation. If you have any questions please contact JISC Collections on ebooks@jisc.ac.uk
For further information on the project please see www.jiscebooksproject.org
Monday, April 30, 2007
Core reading list e-books for the JISC national e-books observatory project: the bids are in!
The deadline for the submission of core reading list e-book bids was Monday 23rd April. JISC has received a number of bids from publishers and e-book aggregators hoping to partner in the national e-books observatory project. The bids will now pass through the first stage of the evaluation process which entails marking by the project board against the criteria specified in the tender document.
The successful bids will then move to the second phase of the evaluation process. This is where details of the titles included in the successful bids and other relevant information such as platform functionality and availability will be made available to the UK HE community through a consultation process.
The consultation will start in mid June and run to the end of July. The consultation process will provide all UK HE institutions with the chance to pick titles that are relevant to their courses and to see what titles are being offered. The most popular titles will then be placed onto a priority list and assessed against the budget available. There will be information on the licensing, the platforms the titles will be available on and functionality being offered. Further information will be circulated shortly….keep an eye on www.jiscebooksproject.org or sign up for the RSS feeds.
Further details are available here
The successful bids will then move to the second phase of the evaluation process. This is where details of the titles included in the successful bids and other relevant information such as platform functionality and availability will be made available to the UK HE community through a consultation process.
The consultation will start in mid June and run to the end of July. The consultation process will provide all UK HE institutions with the chance to pick titles that are relevant to their courses and to see what titles are being offered. The most popular titles will then be placed onto a priority list and assessed against the budget available. There will be information on the licensing, the platforms the titles will be available on and functionality being offered. Further information will be circulated shortly….keep an eye on www.jiscebooksproject.org or sign up for the RSS feeds.
Further details are available here
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
JISC national e-books observatory project: deep log analysis study
JISC Collections, in association with UK Higher Education, have launched a significant e-book project that will assess impacts, observe behaviours and develop new models to stimulate the UK higher education e-books market. The national e-books observatory project aims to fund and license collections of e-books that are highly relevant to UK higher education taught course students in four disciplines and evaluate the use of the e-books through deep log analysis. Knowledge acquired during the project will be shared with publishers, aggregators and libraries to help encourage an e-books market that has appropriate business and licensing models.
The deep log analysis study tender invites proposals to undertake a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the e-books made freely available to the UK higher education community as part of the project. Deep log analysis techniques should be used to monitor, analyse and evaluate the use of the e-books by students. The empirical data collected will be shared with the project partners to inform future e-book licensing, pricing and promotion strategies.
Further details are available here
The deep log analysis study tender invites proposals to undertake a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the e-books made freely available to the UK higher education community as part of the project. Deep log analysis techniques should be used to monitor, analyse and evaluate the use of the e-books by students. The empirical data collected will be shared with the project partners to inform future e-book licensing, pricing and promotion strategies.
Further details are available here
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