National experiment about the impact of e-books on student learning and publishing sales

The aim of the JISC national e-books observatory project is to gather much needed evidence:
Evidence about the impact of e-books on traditional print sales to students
Evidence about how to create exciting e-books that will engage the digital native
Evidence about the pricing models for the future
Evidence about how to promote the use of e-books

JISC is funding CIBER 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?

Announcing the e-books:
JISC has funded a collection of e-books that will be freely available to students in all UK universities. The JISC national e-books observatory project is making available for two years 36 e-books selected by librarians to support taught course students. The e-book collections consist of both core and recommended reading texts in Business and Management Studies, Engineering, Media Studies and Medicine.

The MyiLibrary national e-books observatory collection consists of 26 e-books available via the MyiLibrary platform:
Engineering e-book collection: 14 core and recommended reading engineering e-books from Elsevier, Thomas Telford and Cambridge University Press
Media Studies e-book collection: 7 core and recommended reading media studies e-books from Taylor & Francis and Palgrave
Business and Management Studies e-book collection: 5 core and recommended reading business and management studies e-books from Palgrave Macmillan and Pearson Education

The Wolters Kluwer Health national e-books observatory collection consists of 10 e-books available via the Books@Ovid platform:
Medical e-books collection: 10 core and recommended reading medical e-books from Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins. The collection supports taught course students studying medicine and comprises of a cross-section of key medical fields, covering a range of basic disciplines such as Cardiology and Haematology, as well as cross-disciplinary fields such as Evidence Based Practice and Epidemiology.

There is no charge for access to these platforms and all the MARC records will be available for free (in one single download) from the National E-books Observatory Catalogue Records (NEOCaR).
Subscribe to the e-book collections:
To find out about the e-books included and to subscribe please visit the JISC national e-books observatory project pages on the JISC Collections website (http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/jiscebooksproject).

For full information on the project please visit www.jiscebooksproject.org or contact Caren Milloy on Ten adres e-mail jest ukrywany przed spamerami, włącz obsługę JavaScript w przeglądarce, by go zobaczyć
Caren Milloy
E-books Project Manager
JISC Collections
Brettenham House, Ground Floor
5 Lancaster Place
London, WC2E 7EN