Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: February 4, 2010
Well, this was a surprise. Last week I emailed Edina to inquire whether it was possible to download films from their Film and Sound Online service, change their format and upload the result to devices such as the iPod Touch to loan out to students. I thought I was being quite cheeky, but was totally surprised [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: January 26, 2010
JorumOpen has now launched – (see the press release at: http://www.rsc-northwest.ac.uk/news/142-learning-resources/1501-the-next-phase-of-jorum-sharing-using-jorumopen-and-jorumuk). This has been in the planning for a long time. Basically what it now means is that any resources that are contributed to JorumOpen are freely available to anyone on the web under a creative commons licence. This now makes one service of Jorum [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: January 21, 2010
Since colleges started getting the ebrary system for their eBooks for FE collection, there have been quite a number of problems installing the ebrary Reader for the additional functionality which this provides. The good news is that for this particular collection the ebrary Reader will soon no longer be required. See Anna Vernon’s message below [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: November 16, 2009
Did you know that you can customise how the ebrary eBook library looks? Top Bar It is possible to customise the top bar of your ebrary site to show whatever you wish; provided that you ensure that all links open in a new window and that the new page is 42px high. This page can [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: May 21, 2007
I have recently learnt of a new addition to the licences for the JISC Collections. There have been issues for a long time now concerning lecturers delivering HE courses within FE Colleges that are not employed or affliated to the university. Even though the course is a university course, the lecturers have no entitlement to [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: February 27, 2007
I know I don’t post much on this blog for HE, mainly because my background is FE and therefore the majority of my work is still within this sector. However, just reading through the CILIP update I’ve come across the following useful (hopefully!) tool for HE. http://www.andrews-consultancy.com/jisc_database_assessment/ JISC Collections have funded Andrews Consultancy to produce [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: February 23, 2007
The JISC Collections have recently released the following article regarding Infotrac Onefile. Since July 2004 over 1000 new full text titles have been added to InfoTrac OneFile, ranging from the practical to the vocational to the academic and covering the full spectrum of subject disciplines and topics of general interest. Thomson Learning continue to work on [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: February 20, 2007
(Please find below details concerning the future of European Sources online. In 2004 ProQuest and JISC negotiated an arrangement whereby European Sources Online and KnowUK was available to the FE sector as a joint package. This arrangement comes to an end in May 2007. No parallel arrangement was made for the HE sector, although a [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: February 6, 2007
Please find below a very welcome announcement for FE Colleges from Thomson Learning concerning Infotrac. “Dear Subscriber Thomson Gale and JISC Collections are delighted to announce that The Guardian and The Observer are now accessible to the FE community on InfoTrac Custom Newspapers. Our licensing team has been working to achieve this for some time, and as [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: February 5, 2007
As I’m sure colleagues who are responsible for the JISC collections within their insitution are aware, there is an item in the Model Licence concerning a “Walk in User”. The description of a Walk in User from the Guide to the Model Licence is below: Any person who is NOT a current student, faculty member or [...]
