JISC

Core reading list e-books ITT

JISC Collections, in association with UK higher education, is launching a significant e-book project that will assess the impacts, observe behaviours and develop new models to stimulate the UK higher education e-books market. The national e-books observatory project aims to fund and license a collection of e-books that are highly relevant to UK higher education taught course students in four disciplines and evaluate the use of the e-books through deep log analysis. Knowledge acquired during the project will be shared with publishers, aggregators and libraries to help encourage an e-books market that has appropriate business and licensing models.

The core reading list e-books tender invites bids from publishers and e-book aggregators. Bidders are required to provide e-books that form part of core reading for taught course students in UK higher education. The project will provide successful bidders with the opportunity to take part in this national project, to receive unique data on e-book user behaviours and to assess the impact, if any, of making e-books free at the point of use, on print sales and to do this in a risk managed environment.

The official notice for the core reading list e-books tender is available in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union which can be accessed via Tenders Electronic Daily The notice reference number is 47629-2007.

To receive the tender document please email Caren Milloy