Learning and research resources

Supporting teachers, students, researchers, librarians and resource managers.

Learning and teaching licence portfolio

Quality digital content to support you in delivering personalised and adaptive learning experiences.

We are developing licensing coverage in content, research tools and software, including augmented reality and virtual reality, courseware, e-books and e-textbooks, databases and content collections. Our focus subjects are archaeology, business, construction, digital, IT, engineering, science, and technology.

You can view our learning and teaching agreements on the licence subscriptions manager catalogue or the Chest catalogue for software.

Contact help.digitalresources@jisc.ac.uk to tell us your specific learning and teaching requirements or if you would like to recommend in demand resources and content.

Access to content

Access thousands of resources to use in your learning and research environment - from e-books and images to journals and texts - and make substantial savings through our group purchasing scheme.

Archives Hub
Search for archives held at over 300 UK institutions, and find out how to become a contributor.

British Association for the Advancement of Science collection
Access nearly 1 million pages of digitised texts on the history of science 1830s-1970s.

Digital archival collections group purchasing scheme
Collectively lowering the cost of acquiring digital archival collections.

e-books for FE
A collection of free e-books for all UK further education colleges.

Historical Texts
A single platform providing access to over 400,000 texts from four key collections.

Journal Archives
A single platform providing access to over 600 journal backfiles from eight publishers' archives.

Preservation
Keep your digital assets and collections usable.

Reading lists

Working in partnership with government, publishers and awarding organisations, we've developed downloadable spreadsheets for colleges to find relevant teaching and learning resources. 

National Skills Fund level 3 reading list

Vocational learning reading list for Wales

Angela Leavens Head of learning resources and e-learning, Strode College

"I wouldn’t be able to afford to buy that number of e-books if I was buying them from scratch"

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Negotiating on your behalf

We negotiate with publishers to procure and licence affordable digital content for the UK education and research community.

Find out more about licence subscription manager