This page provides links to useful reports / blogs / projects that involve e-books. We welcome contributions!
Migrating to e in UK Further Education
The E-books for FE Project provides a core collection of e-books to all UK FE institutions, initially for five years, with the option to acquire additional e-book titles at discounted prices through the e-select framework agreement. However, this is unlikely to provide all the e-books required for the wide range of FE courses available. JISC Collections with funding from JISC commissioned John Cox associates to explore and evaluate a range of business models that will enable students in FE to have access to the e-books needed for their studies.
‘Models to enable students
studying in Further Education to procure e-books to support
education’ report by John Cox, Laura Cox and Mark Carden, March 2010.
The ‘big deal’ approach to acquiring e-books: a usage-based study The results of an analysis of COUNTER e‐book usage reports for SpringerLink e‐book collections purchased since July 2008 at the University of Liverpool.
Snijder,Ronald. 2010. The profits of free books - an experiment to measure the impact of Open Access publishing.
RIN. 2010. Trends in the finances of the UK higher education libraries: 1999 – 2009.
Willinsky, John. 2010. Towards the Design of an open Monograph Press Journal of Electronic Publishing 12, no. 1.