e-content services and technology provider ebrary, US, has announced that it has been appointed by JISC Collections to supply e-book content and delivery platform for its multimillion-dollar e-books for Further Education (FE ) Project. Under the terms of the contract, negotiated in partnership with the company's authorised distributor 2info, the JISC will fund a collection of over 3,000 multidisciplinary e-books from ebrary and use ebrary's technology to deliver the content to over 440 Further Education colleges in the UK. Participating colleges may also supplement this collection by purchasing additional titles through a framework agreement.
E-books in the collection were selected by librarians and instructors from FE institutions for relevancy to the curriculum, including content of special interest to colleges in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The multidisciplinary database features titles from leading publishers such as Berg Publishing, Elsevier, Hodder Education, John Wiley & Sons, Pearson Education, Springer and Taylor & Francis.
Additionally, JISC Collections and ebrary will create five new collections, to be made available annually through 2014, of the top 100 e-books chosen by the FE community from ebrary's growing catalogue of over 100,400 titles available for purchase. Participating colleges can pick and choose individual titles to develop a custom collection for its specific needs that will be delivered alongside the centrally funded core collection.
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