The project finished in Dec 2011. The Role of Metadata in the Discovery, Selection and Acquisition of e-Books. This is a JISC funded project. It ran during 2011 and was completed in December 2011. If you want to comment or contribute to this wiki use the DISCUSSION. Tab or feel free to contact.

Over the last three years I have been developing and delivering the Jisc Digital Leaders Programme. Part of a wider team including Lawrie Phipps and Donna Lanclos. Those two were recently interviewed by Chris Rowell, though the focus of the podcast was supposed to be about a chapter of a book that Lawrie and Donna had written, in the end the podcast was mainly about the leaders programme.

Welcome to the e-textbook business models study. In November 2009, the findings of the JISC national e-books observatory project. The research findings showed a clear co-existence of print and electronic within the university environment with a continued role for the library.

JISC Collections exists to support the acquisition of digital content for education and research in the UK. Gathering evidence to help stakeholders make informed decisions on the future of open access scholarly monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences. JISC national e-books observatory project. E-textbook business models for HE. OAPEN-UK matched pairs pilot final report.

The JISC national e-books observatory project. Undertook a wealth of research, analysing log data to learn about how users discover and navigate through e-books, exploring the attitudes of academics and students and assessing the impact of making course text e-books available via university libraries to thousands of students on print sales. We hope that you enjoy learning more about our project and find the reports of use.