Jisc’s institution as e-textbook publisher project is a four-year project investigating the viability of higher education institutions publishing their own e-textbooks. On 16 June 2017, Jisc and the four project teams hosted the first workshop to an audience composed of librarians, learning technologists, senior university staff and academics. The workshop reflected back … Read more
This blog post was written by Professor Frank Rennie*, Lews Castle College, University of the Highlands and Islands e-TIPS was an experimental project, so it would be wrong to predict a massive sea-change in the adoption of e-textbooks, but our experiences allow us to speculate on potential implications and opportunities for the future use of … Read more
This blog post was written by Lara Speicher, Publishing Manager, UCL Press Among the many proposals UCL Press receives it is often noted how few of them are for textbooks. When we discuss this with our academic colleagues the most frequent reasons given for this are that an author can potentially receive a substantial amount … Read more
This blog post was written by Laurence Patterson, Edinburgh Napier University Commercial Academic eBooks are cheaper and more broadly distributed now than they have ever been. Now this could be a happy coincidence that sees the consumer spoiled for choice (around 20,000 new Kindle academic texts per year) and with a few spare pennies in their … Read more
This blog post was written by Laurence Patterson, Edinburgh Napier University Opting to produce bespoke learning content over buying-in something off-the-shelf is, in these rather austere and unpredictably inverse times, certainly a daunting prospect. You may have the planning and writing process down to a fine art, it might even be the case that most of … Read more
Jisc are pleased to announce that bookings are now open for the Institution as e-textbook publisher project workshop in Birmingham on 16 June 2017. The Jisc Institution as e-textbook publisher project is a four-year project investigating the viability of higher education institutions publishing their own e-textbooks. The overall objective of the programme, which started in … Read more
We launched our e-textbook, Key Concepts in Public Archaeology this week. This book appears on our innovative, browser-based HTML platform: https://ucldigitalpress.co.uk/Book/Article/22/47/. This collection is edited by Gabriel Moshenska, Lecturer in Public Archaeology at UCL, and it brings together contributions from the dynamic field of public archaeology. It is aimed at both undergraduate and MA students … Read more
The e-textbook Using Primary Sources has been released today (24 January). The e-textbook was edited by edited by Dr Jonathan Hogg and includes contributions from over 30 academics. This project is a collaboration between Liverpool University Press, the University of Liverpool Library and Jisc, and is available for free on the platform, BiblioBoard. Using Primary Sources is an Open … Read more
In this first blog post Jisc Collections introduces the ‘Institution as E-textbook Publisher’ project. Since April 2014, Jisc Collections has been funding four project teams from UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to investigate the viability of publishing their own e-textbooks. The overall objective of the project is to assess whether the textbooks created assist in … Read more