Core E-Textbooks now available for Business and Management

Some core e-textbooks are now available in Business & Management (5 titles). There are also titles for Engineering (14 titles), Media Studies (7 titles) and Medicine (10 titles).

These titles have been licensed by the Library free of charge for 2 years as part of the JISC E-Books Observatory Project which aims to look at how core texts are used online, and how their availability affects purchasing levels and borrowing of library copies of the print versions. Up until now, most e-books available to libraries have been 'research monographs' or the sort of books that are useful for background reading or projects. Publishers have not been willing to licence core e-textbooks to libraries, though some of them do sell them direct to students.

The books are available on either the Myilibrary or Books@Ovid platforms.