Alexander Street Press has forged an agreement with Jisc to provide access to video resources for colleges and universities in the UK using the publisher’s popular evidence-based acquisition (EBA) model.
The EBA agreement gives colleges and universities in the UK the opportunity to have unlimited access to Alexander Street Press’ complete suite of academic video titles - more than 33,000 titles - for up to one year at a time. At the end of this period, university staff can use Alexander Street Press’ detailed metrics to evaluate their patrons’ most-viewed titles and select those they’d like to incorporate into their permanent collection.
Gareth Bish, UK and Ireland sales manager at Alexander Street Press said:
“We are delighted to have reached this agreement with Jisc, not only because of their dedication to providing UK institutions with market-leading academic resources for scholarly research, teaching, and learning, but also because they are highly trusted by the academic library community to negotiate license agreements for digital media via flexible business models such as this.
We are thrilled to have their support for our EBA programme. In return, as part of our commitment to driving and analysing usage, we will be working with Jisc on enhanced provision of usage statistics for academic libraries.”
This agreement is the result of heightened interest in EBA, following agreements made in 2013 with the University of Dundee and Leeds Metropolitan University, and will further pave the way for libraries worldwide to add the most highly sought-after content to their collections in a precise, cost-effective way.
Lorraine Estelle, executive director content and discovery and divisional CEO Jisc Collections, Jisc said:
“Jisc Collections is very pleased to work with Alexander Street Press on bringing this evidence based acquisition model to the attention of academic libraries. The model has worked very successfully for some libraries in the acquisition of e-books and we believe it has the same potential in the area of multimedia.”
For more information about Alexander Street Press’ evidence-based acquisition model, please contact sales@alexanderstreet.com.
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Jisc is pleased to announce that those universities and colleges affected by the Open Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) bug, dubbed 'heartbleed', will be able to obtain replacement certificates through Jisc’s Janet Certificate Service for free.
SSL allows websites to demonstrate their authenticity to users. Most universities and colleges in the UK use OpenSSL for this process. Yesterday the heartbleed bug was detected in OpenSSL. Jisc’s Janet Certificate Service provides certificates in order to authenticate your website. This service is designed to speed up the process of requesting certificates for .ac.uk and .gov.uk domains and for other domains owned by UK universities and colleges. This service normally carries a fee of up to £35.
Affected universities and colleges are advised to follow the technical advice to protect their websites issued by Jisc-funded service, computer security incident response team (CSIRT).
Tim Kidd, operations director, said:
“As a trusted advisor to the education and research sector we are pleased to be offering advice and assistance to those affected by this issue. As well as technical advice we are offering affected universities and colleges replacement certificates free of charge. Any university or college affected and requiring a replacement certificate, should contact service@ja.net.”
If you have been affected by the heartbleed bug, and as a result need to replace SSL certificates, then please visit our community group to find out how to obtain yours for free.
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Author of The Big Short says in his latest book that high-frequency trading is costing other investors billions of dollars
Residents on South-controlled island are evacuated to shelters after exchange of fire caps days of rising tension
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Ukip leader praises Russian president's handling of Syria crisis, but describes Germany's chancellor as 'incredibly cold'
Nigel Farage has named Vladimir Putin as the world leader he most admires, praising the Russian president's handling of the crisis in Syria.
But the Ukip leader had less kind words for Angela Merkel, describing the German chancellor as "incredibly cold".
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A United Nations report raised the threat of climate change to a whole new level on Monday, warning of sweeping consequences to life and livelihood.
The report from the UN's intergovernmental panel on climate change concluded that climate change was already having effects in real time melting sea ice and thawing permafrost in the Arctic, killing off coral reefs in the oceans, and leading to heat waves, heavy rains and mega-disasters.
Lord Warner says monthly fee could be collected alongside council tax to prevent health service from sliding into decline
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Lord Warner, who served under Tony Blair, warns that the NHS will become unsustainable without new sources of funding and painful changes.
Chancellor lauds creation of more than 1.3m posts as tax and welfare changes 'encourage jobs growth' across Britain
George Osborne will claim on Monday that the changes to the UK's taxes and welfare system are the most significant for two decades and will drive the UK's economic recovery by encouraging jobs growth.
But as the chancellor highlights fresh measures to tighten access to welfare, the Department for Work and Pensions is studying a government-commissioned report highlighting inadequate procedures, resulting in a lack of communication particularly for the vulnerable. The report, not yet published, was commissioned by ministers last year and was due to be handed to ministers last week.
Malaysia's acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein has told relatives of the missing passengers that he hasn't given up hope of finding survivors however remote that possibility.
After meeting Chinese relatives who travelled to Kuala Lumpur, Hishammuddin gave an interview to China's state broadcaster CCTV. He said: "I told them to read deep into my heart. Even hoping against hope, even praying for a miracle, no matter how remote. They said 'please search for survivors'. I said that has always been my priority. It's not about the plane. It's not about the black box. It's about the people in the plane."
Relatives of the missing passengers have demanded meetings with the aircraft's manufacturers Boeing and Rolls Royce, according to a video from China's state news agency Xinhua.
It has footage of the relatives spokesman Jiang Hui demanding an apology from Malaysia over its handling of the investigation and communication with relatives.
Welcome to our continuing coverage of the search for Malaysia Airlines flight Mh370 more than three weeks after it went missing with 239 people on board.
Here's a summary of the latest developments.
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Dozens of angry relatives of Chinese passengers aboard the missing flight have demanded that Malaysia apologise for its handling of the investigation as they arrived in Kuala Lumpur from Beijing on Sunday. About 50 more family members joined those who had earlier flown to Malaysia, saying they hoped to get more information from officials in the capital.
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England ditch blue shorts used in qualification
Fifa urge nations to wear one-colour kits
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Divergent is anything but. It's yet another post-Buffy outing in which the neverending conflict between high-school tribes jocks, brains, nerds, goths is writ large in an inoffensively occultish alternate universe heavy with testosterone and tumescence, where every protagonist is both self-actualised super-gladiator and confused, angry, horny kid, and where the SATs and final exams of real life are mythicised into life-or-death encounters in blood-stained combat arenas and war zones fizzing with flying arrows. I fear a substantial portion of the film's viewers would gladly assent to the horrifying motto of Divergent's villain: "The future belongs to those who know where they belong"
The NHS no longer meets the country's needs. Rather than managing decline, politicians and the public must face uncomfortable truths
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The writer/director of Afternoon Delight calls for more nuanced female roles in cinema
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Afternoon Delight, which she wrote and directed, is her first film, and while sex is still at the forefront, it's tackled with maturity and nuance. Kathryn Hahn plays Rachel, a well-to-do mum who doesn't quite know what to do with herself now that her kid is at school. Sex has slipped away, as has her sense of self, and when a female friend suggests she and her husband Jeff (Josh Radnor) go to a strip club to spice things up, Jeff buys her a lapdance. Feeling a muddled connection with the stripper (Juno Temple), Rachel later invites her to move in with them. In a film as funny as it is incisive, she is sent on an unplanned voyage of sexual rediscovery.
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Adults convicted of acts of emotional cruelty against children in their care will face the same threat of jail as those guilty of physical neglect, under new laws being considered by ministers.
Parents found guilty could face up to 10 years in prison, the maximum term in child neglect cases.
Father of one who died after training plane attempted somersault was trustee of aviation museum
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Police confirmed on Sunday that 29-year-old father of one Simon Chamberlain died along with the pilot of the plane.
Hometrack finds housebuyers in London are paying more than 99% of asking prices against a backdrop of soaring demand
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Lavrov demands that Kiev have only limited powers as Kerry says military moves are obstructing peace deal
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One of the fiercest rivalries in the world of business is heading back to court this week with Apple seeking $2bn in damages from Samsung for allegedly ripping off designs and features.
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