Information on Higher Education journals collections that are available to Further Education colleges at an affordable price.
In response to growing demand on the further education sector to deliver higher education provision, Jisc has put a series of agreements in place with publishers of academic journals content to support the sector by providing affordable access to this content.
The following journal agreements have dedicated FE pricing and are available to all Jisc members who have an FE licence subscriptions manager account.
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The title lists for each agreement are available in CSV format. The files can be opened in spreadsheet software, such as MS Excel, OpenOffice or LibreOffice. Key information includes the titles, the coverage start and end dates and the URLs. This will give you an opportunity to explore the content available in each agreement.
We are very keen to ensure that our negotiations focus on FE College resource requirements. Please use the following link to request products you would like Jisc Licensing to explore: https://jisc.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/jisc-licensing-product-request-form-2
Catalogue page: ACM Digital Library Journals 2023 - Licence subscriptions manager (jisc.ac.uk)
The ACM Digital Library is a comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology. The full-text database includes the complete collection of ACM's publications, including journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters and multimedia titles, and currently consists of:
KB+ Title list: https://www.kbplus.ac.uk/kbplus7/publicExport/pkg/2765
Catalogue page: Annual Reviews Journals 2023-2025 - Licence subscriptions manager (jisc.ac.uk)
Annual Reviews publications provide primary research literature in 51 disciplines for the biomedical, life, physical, agriculture, and social sciences, and economics.
Annual Reviews articles:
Annual Reviews offers eight collections, the Complete Collection or seven subject collections. The collections offer a reference assortment of review articles. Each review contains an average of 150 citations to the key primary research contributions in a field, increasing usage of primary journals and guiding subject librarians with collection development.
Institutions can subscribe to one or a combination of the following collections:
And/or:
Catalogue page: BioOne Complete Journals SMP 2022-2024 - Licence subscriptions manager (jisc.ac.uk)
BioOne is a global, not-for-profit collaboration bringing together scientific societies, publishers and libraries to provide access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. In 2022, BioOne Complete offers 217 full-text journals from leading scientific societies and independent presses around the world.
Catalogue page: BMJ Publish and Read 2023-24 - Licence subscriptions manager (jisc.ac.uk)
BMJ Group is a leading global publisher of peer-reviewed medical journals covering a broad selection of medical specialties. This is a read and publish agreement covers 2023-24 and includes optional publishing and read only upgrades.
KB+ Title list:
Cambridge University Press is the printing and publishing house of the University of Cambridge. The press is the oldest publishing house in the world celebrated 436 years of continuous publishing in 2021. CUP is a not-for-profit publisher and their mission is to advance learning, knowledge and research worldwide. CUP publishes over 380 peer reviewed journals a year for distribution worldwide. CUP journals cover a broad range of subjects including all the main subjects in the humanities, social sciences and hard sciences. Their key areas are applied science, environment and conservation, agriculture, neuroscience and biomedicine, history, area studies, language and linguistics, political science and international relations. This is a read and publish transitional OA agreement pricing for Further Education institutions, this includes access to the complete journals collection.
Subject areas covered:
Cambridge University Press catalogue page
CUP Agreement and Title List
CUP Read and Publish Agreement 2021-24 Offer Document HE in FE
Licensed Material consists of:
All Licensed Material: Cambridge complete journals collection
Duke University Press publishes books and journals primarily in the humanities and social sciences. The e-Duke journal titles are best known for gender and sexuality studies, anthropology, history, cultural studies and theory, environmental studies, international regional studies, political theory and literature.
Duke University Press e-Duke Scholarly Collection Journals Offer Doc 2022_24
MAH Core is a bespoke collection of 10 Mark Allen Group healthcare journals.
Subject areas covered:
The OUP Online Journals Collection for FE provides Read access to OUP's collection of journals in the arts, social sciences, scientific, technical, medical, professional, and humanities disciplines. Please refer to the Offer Document on the catalogue page for full details.
Oxford University Press catalogue page
Title List: Oxford University Press: Jisc Collections: OUP Online Journals for FE: 2022
Project MUSE provides access to a range digital humanities and social science content from over 120 publishers including university presses and scholarly societies.
Subject areas covered:
Project Muse Agreement and Title List
Project MUSE Journals 21-23 Offer Doc
The publisher offers the following collections:
Details of titles in all collections are available. Institutions can also use the Collection Comparison Tool to compare collections by title.
Catalogue page: SAGE Premier Journals for FE 2023-2024 - Licence subscriptions manager (jisc.ac.uk)
SAGE is offering all eligible institutions access to the "SAGE Premier" current year collection, as well as a new option for access to the static 2022 collection. This collection contains over 1,000 journals. Access will include volumes from 1999 to the current volume while a subscription is maintained. Post-termination access will be available to all journals in the package for the subscription year.
There are two subscription options to choose from in this agreement, to allow for greater flexibility:
Current subscribers to the 2022 agreement will have their quotations for 2023 and 2024 already loaded into LSM. This includes options to renew to the latest collection, or remain on the 2022 collection, both of which have different pricing options (3% yearly increase, 1.5% yearly increase).
New subscribers, please request a quotation through LSM.
KB+ Title list: https://www.kbplus.ac.uk/kbplus7/publicExport/pkg/3018
Catalogue page: Springer Journals for FE 2023-2025 - Licence subscriptions manager (jisc.ac.uk)
KB+ Title List: KB+: Jisc Collections: Springer Journals for FE 2023-2025
The Springer journal collection includes more than 2,500 English-language and close to 200 German-language journals. Springer is also home to the largest portfolio of open access journals, including the journals from BioMed Central and the SpringerOpen portfolio.
This FE agreement will be based on an annual Jisc banded fee. Springer is offering FE colleges an access only model (no access rights after cancellation). The title list will comprise all titles published by Springer and will include all transfer and new start titles.
Taylor & Francis Journals enable colleges to access the full collection, the Social Science and Humanities Library, Science and Technology Library, and the Medical Collections.
Subject areas covered:
Taylor & Francis catalogue page
Taylor & Francis Journals Agreement and Title List
Taylor & Francis Journals for FE 2021-23 Offer Doc
FE Colleges may participate in the Read element of the agreement only.
The Read-only agreement for FE uses the same Offer Document as the Transitional Agreement for HE. FE pricing is outlined in the same document.
Licensed Material will be bespoke to each institution, based on their 2020 Database and any additional Collections which they choose to include.
Journal title lists for each Collection are below.
Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH)
Complimentary Backfiles are included back to 1997 for all subscribers to their chosen Collections.
Please note that this agreement is only invoiced in US Dollars.
Catalogue page: Wiley Online Library Journals for FE 2023-2025 - Licence subscriptions manager (jisc.ac.uk)
This Agreement from Wiley is available for the FE community and gives access to the Journal Full Collection. The Journal Full Collection is hosted on the Wiley Online Library. The Wiley Online Library delivers seamless integrated access to over four million articles from over 1,600 journals, 21,000+ online books, and 200+ online reference works, laboratory protocols and databases. All hosted on the most innovative and robust platform in the scholarly publishing community. This Agreement will give users access to the Full Journal Collection only.
KB+ Title List: https://www.kbplus.ac.uk/kbplus7/publicExport/pkg/3018
Catalogue page: Elsevier for FE 2023 - Licence subscriptions manager (jisc.ac.uk)
Elsevier agreement for FE colleges. This agreement provides Read Access to ScienceDirect and Cell Press Journals from Elsevier.
KB+ Title lists:
Subject Collections: