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Welcome to JISC Collections

We are a membership organisation that supports the provision of digital content for education and research in the UK.

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Our new website is full of great new features! We've written a beginners' guide to the JISC Collections website to help you discover them.

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OAPEN-UK researcher survey

The OAPEN-UK project is exploring open access scholarly monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences.

We would like to thank all the researchers that responded to the survey - we had over 850 responses. We are currently analysing the results which we will share in July.

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The Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP) provides a "one-stop shop" for libraries to view, download and analyse their usage reports from NESLi2 publishers.

Visit JUSP for more information

JISC Collections news

The Literary Encyclopedia offer (2012 to 2015) - Now available

Published Wed May 16 2012, by Victoria Legge in Renewals

JISC Collections is pleased to announce that the new Literary Encyclopedia (2012 to 2015) offer is now available for review / renewal, starting on 1st September 2012. The Literary Encyclopedia is a reference work for literature originally written in English or translated into English. All entries have been written since 1999 by a network of over 2500 established scholars and edited by a distinguished scholarly board.

Pidgeon Digital 2012 to 2015 offer now available

Published Fri April 20 2012, by Victoria Legge in Renewals

The new Pidgeon Digital agreement (2012 to 2015) is now available for review / renewal. 

JISC Collections 2012 Summer Roadshows for HE

Published Fri April 13 2012, by Carolyn Alderson in Roadshows

We are running a number of Roadshows for HE this summer, following on from the positive reception and feedback from last year’s events. Registration is open.

Churchill Archive: expressions of interest required

Published Mon April 2 2012, by Lorraine Estelle in Consultations

Bloomsbury Publishing will shortly launch the Churchill Archive: a digital collection of the 800,000-page archive of the Papers of Sir Winston Churchill. Institutions will have the option to purchase (through a perpetual licence) or to subscribe to the archive. The final price will depend on how many libraries decide to participate.

SAaRIH (Safeguarding Adults at Risk Information Hub) - Childink addition - Offer now available

Published Mon April 2 2012, by Victoria Legge in New agreements

Please note that the new addition to the Childlink agreement, SAaRIH (Safeguarding Adults at Risk Information Hub), is now avialable in the JISC Collections catalogue.

Free access to 65,000 19th century books for HE users

Published Tue March 13 2012, by Caren Milloy in News releases

The British Library and JISC Collections have announced the launch of JISC Historic Books, a new website for researchers and students that includes recently digitised editions of more than 65,000 books from the British Library’s extensive 19th century collections.

JISC Collections 2012 HE Satisfaction Survey: feedback and follow up

Published Mon March 12 2012, by Paul Harwood in Company news and announcements

Thank you to all institutions that took time to complete our HE Satisfaction Survey which looked back at our activities and performance in 2011. Over 100 institutions responded, spread across all the JISC bands. What we would like to do in this brief response is provide some very specific feedback based on comments and questions raised by institutions when completing the survey.

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