JCU Library's new eTextbook Collections - with unlimited user licences!

🕮 JCU Library is pleased to announce three new ebook collections that are now available to all current JCU staff and students. These collections offer a huge range of multidisciplinary ebooks, eTextbooks, and teaching and learning resources, with unlimited user access – ensuring that students have zero cost and equitable access to learning resources 🥳

📚 Cambridge Aspire eTextbooks

Cambridge Aspire provides access to over 1,400 multidisciplinary online textbooks and includes curated supplementary materials to enhance the learning experience through bonus content and assessment materials.

📚 Wiley eTextbook Collection

The Wiley eTextbook Collection provides unlimited access to market-leading higher education eTextbooks, ensuring that every student has equitable access to essential learning resources from day one. The Wiley eTextbook Collection features the latest editions of the most adopted titles across various disciplines and the top locally published eTextbooks by ANZ authors, including local standards and case studies.

📚 ProQuest Ebooks

ProQuest Ebooks contains over 700,000 high-quality, multidisciplinary scholarly ebooks with unlimited user access. ProQuest Ebooks is continually updated to support a wide range of academic disciplines, emerging subject areas and unique interests.

🎓 We encourage JCU academic staff to select an eTextbook from one of our eTextbook collections, or an OER, for zero cost, unlimited and equitable access for students. JCU Library has Liaison Librarians for all major discipline areas – they can assist you with locating resources, using open educational resources and creating well structured and engaging Reading Lists. Remember to add your Prescribed and Recommended Textbook to your subjects Reading List, or Request a Reading List if you do not yet have one for your subject. 

🕮 Contact the Library for more information and support.