The appended has just appeared on the COLLECTIONS-NEWS jiscmail list.
Apologies for cross-posting, but there is a medicine strand so you may be
interested in contributing to this consultation.
Best wishes -
Betsy
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Betsy Anagnostelis
Librarian, Royal Free Hospital Medical Library and
Joint Biomedical Team Leader, UCL Library Services
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From: Caren MILLOY
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:16 AM
Subject: JISC National E-books Observatory Consultation - Deadline 18th July
JISC National E-books Observatory UK HE Consultation
http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/consultation/
Deadline Wednesday 18th July
Dear Colleagues
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:
a.. Engineering
b.. Medicine (excluding mental health and nursing
c.. Media Studies
d.. 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 [log in to unmask]
For further information on the project please see www.jiscebooksproject.org
Kind Regards
Caren
Caren Milloy
E-books Project Manager
JISC Collections
Ground Floor
Brettenham House
5 Lancaster Place
London WC2E 7EN
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 3006 6003
Mob: +44 (0)7817030769
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web: www.jiscebooksproject.org
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