Lorraine Estelle
About: I lead the team at JISC Collections whiich is supported by the JISC . JISC Collections aims to offer superior provide affordable and highly relevant online content. We do this by managing licences for online resources on behalf of further and higher education and the research councils.
Discussions
JISC Collections
--We will be at the JISC Conference, stand number 8. We'd like to meet people there and tell them about some of our new initiatives. One we are pa...
Blog Posts
BBC Motion Gallery Clip Creativity Challenge winners shows real flair
--BBC Motion Gallery together with JISC Collections and London Metropolitan University has announced the winner of the BBC Motion Gallery Clip C...
JSTOR launches Ireland Collection
--Participation fees waived for universities, colleges and research councils in the UK and Irelend JSTOR has launched the Ireland Collection, a new ...
JISC Collections agreements for four free journal archives
--Four significant journal archives are now freely available today, from JISC Collections, for all colleges, universities and research councils in t...
New JISC Collections agreement for Who's Who and Who Was Who
--Who’s Who provides a fascinating insight into the private lives of public figures by providing information on over 32,000 influential people i...
Approaches to preserving journal content and other scholarly works
--Access to entire back runs of electronic journals could be lost to educational institutions when subscriptions are cancelled or when journals cease...
a-n The Artist Information Company renewal
--a-n Resources provides online access to a variety of publications, an image bank, a platform for creative writing, research papers, and artist blog...
Britannica Online Academic Edition
--Britannica Online Academic Edition contains the complete content of the encyclopaedia, plus the content form Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionar...
ACLS Humanities E-Book renewal
--ACLS Humanities E-Book is a cross-searchable and growing collection of over 2000 full-text titles in the humanities, which are recommended and revi...
Times Digital Archive (1785-1985) renewal
--The agreement for the Times Digital Archive (1785-1985) has been extended for another year. The new licence will start on 1st August 2008 and end o...
A new agreement for Historic Digimap is now available
--A new 3 year sub-licence agreement for Historic Digimap, which allows users to explore both the historic and geographic environment of the UK, is n...
Major agreement covering all secondary schools in Scotland is announced
--We are delighted to announce that Learning and Teaching Scotland, the lead organisation for curriculum development in Scotland, has subscribed to 6...
Landmark new initiative offers museums major savings on key online subscription resources
--For the first time, museums across England can benefit from nationally negotiated agreements for a range of specially selected and high quality onl...
Collexis Holdings, Inc. and JISC Collections agreement for personalised biomedical research management system
--A major new agreement was announced today between Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: CLXS), a leading developer of semantic knowledge discovery softwar...
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
--New Chinese and Russian modules added along with pronunciation software to online bilingual resource Oxford Language Dictionaries Online is an onli...
Dates for your diary: events JISC Collections will be attending this Summer
--JISC Collections will be attending a number of events this Summer. On the 20th November 2008, we will be hosting our second AGM in London. We look ...
Free preview to Aluka will be ending shortly - call to participate
--Aluka is currently available to more than 3300 institutions worldwide. If your institution is a JSTOR participant, you should already have acc...
Preserving scholarly works: report on e-Journal archiving solutions published
--The "e" of e-journals of course stands for "electronic". However there is a distinct danger that the "e" could equally come to mean "ephem...
Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT): New databases added
--We are pleased to announce that two new databases have been added to the Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT): Academic Onefile General Onef...
JISC E-books observatory project
--The JISC national e-books observatory project is half way through its year of data collection. The team at CIBER who are undertaking the deep log a...
Important update on the Landmap Service
--Due to the Federated Access Management implementation and the availability of the new Cities Revealed data for the Landmap Service, all existing re...
Eighteenth Century Collections Online renewal agreement
--The JISC Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Publisher Hosting Agreement has now been extended until 31 July 2010.* Institutions have the ...
New JISC Collections agreement for the Encyclopedia of Popular Music
--The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is a comprehensive reference work devoted exclusively to popular music, and is now available online. It covers po...
Working Group Focus: Library Advisory - tackling the important issues in e-resource management
--“The Library Advisory Working Group exists to help improve communications between JISC-Collections and the academic community. Formed in December ...
Responding to the changing and diverse user needs through licensing
--JISC Collections and Business and Community and Engagement The Government's initiatives for increased commercial and community engagement means tha...
Forthcoming changes to the JISC Collections Subscriptions Helpdesk
--From 1st August Content Complete Limited will provide the JISC Collections subscriptions and help desk service. Please note that from 1st June all...
Consultation for the purchase of additional datasets for Historic Digimap
--JISC Collections is considering acquiring 3 additional datasets from Landmark Information Group for inclusion in the Historic Digimap service. If t...
Download the interactive PDF versions of the latest JISC Collections catalogue of online resources
--JISC Collections is pleased to announce that the latest printed version of the catalogue of online resources is now available. This catalogue hi...
Your chance to win £200 in British Library gift vouchers by taking part in their survey on how people manage their “digital lives”
--Digital Lives: Helping People to Capture and Secure their Individual Memories, their Personal Creativity, their Shared Historic Moments Increasingl...
Eighteenth Century Collections Online renewal - hosting fees
--In 2005 JISC Collections made a significant investment on behalf of the academic community of the UK in licensing the content of ECCO, a vast colle...
JSTOR launches Arts & Sciences VI Collection
--JSTOR has recently launched their Arts & Sciences VI Collection, which will include a minimum of one hundred twenty (120) titles to be complete...
e-Journal Archiving Solutions final report is now available
--This report is the result of a call by the JISC, issued in January 2008, for a Comparative Study of e-Journal Archiving Solutions. Recognising the ...
Consultation on the renewal of ACLS Humanities E-Book
--ACLS Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of over 2000 full-text, cross-searchable books in the humanities which are selected for their contin...
Oxford Reference Online renewal
--A new 3 year agreement for Oxford Reference Online is now available. Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection contains nearly 1.5 million entrie...
OUP adds new Music Collection to Oxford Scholarship Online
--A new subject module in music has been added to Oxford Scholarship Online, as well as 159 new titles as part of the May 2008 content update. This t...
New JISC Collections project licences resources for schools in the UK
--JISC Collections extends its expertise in licensing with a new collaborative partnership which will deliver substantial savings to schools...
Working Group Focus: E-books
--E-books – Taking forward the findings from the E-books UK Roadshow Chair: Sue McKnight, Director of Libraries and Knowledge Resources, Nottingham T...
e-books in Further Education
--Since the launch of the JISC national e-books observatory project we have been receiving emails from librarians, ILT and LRC staff in FE colleges a...
Landmark initiative to give UK schools major savings on online resources
--Publication Date: 7 May 2008 A landmark Becta-funded initiative called 'JISC Collections for Schools' has been launched to give UK schools...
Licensing beyond borders: international initiative licenses resources across four European countries
--International partnership will deliver savings as well as new business models to European education and research communities. Publication...
New Scopus® agreement is now available
--Updated daily, Scopus® is an abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. It includes the abstracts and cited ref...
Call for Berg Fashion Library Board Members
--In 2010 Berg Publishers will launch the Berg Fashion Library, an online subscription-based resource consisting of the 3.6 million word Berg En...
JISC Collections Consultation - PathCAL
--JISC Collections is consulting with the community regarding the renewal of the licence agreement for PathCAL. PathCAL is a set of 140 web-based tut...
Take part in the JISC Collections survey on Additional Authorised Users
--Just a reminder that JISC Collections would like to invite universities in the UK to take part in a survey relating to extending access to online r...
JISC national e-books observatory project: findings from the first User Survey is now available
--Higher Education (HE) libraries want to provide their students with online access to their course texts, free at the point of use. Such equality of...
JISC Heritage Collections of Digital Archives
--Continuing its mission to provide high-quality digital material that might otherwise be difficult to access, JISC Collections offers fifteen resour...
JISC Collections catalogue of online resources 2008-2009
--JISC Collections is pleased to announce that the latest printed version of the catalogue of online resources is now available. This catalogue hig...
Dates for your diary: events JISC Collections will be attending this Spring
--JISC Collections will be attending a number of events this Spring. We look forward to meeting you there! UKSG 2008 Conference and Exhibition, 7-9 A...
New physics publishing initiative
--An important opportunity has arisen to achieve greater stability in the cost of high energy physics publication and other benefits by transferring ...
JISC National E-textbook Debate - asking big questions: 14th April 2008
--14th April 2008, 5.30 – 7pm, Birmingham http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/events/national-e-textbook-debate To attend as a member of the audience pl...
Oxford Islamic Studies Online and Oxford Language Dictionaries Online - March special offer
--Subscribe in March 2008 to receive 15 months’ access for the price of the first 12 months! Don't worry if you miss your chance in March 2008; if yo...
Assessing the value of the NESLi2 deals: new report is now available
--Many university, college and research libraries already take advantage of the NESLi2 deals and find that they offer good value for money compared t...
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Comments
Hi Estelle
I was given your name today and would like to get in touch about a game/creative learning tool I've developed. It's based on the renowned Buffet Game and on the concept of 'Learners in Control' from the TESEP project. Where am I, by the way!? I keep joining online networks!