Find out more about JCS at Importance of online resources from trusted sources...

Find out more about JCS at The role of JCS...  JCS negotiates licence agreements with publishers of high-quality online resources for the schools sector  JCS offers a central place where schools can go for a choice of trusted online resources – saving them time and money, and...  JCS helps schools get the best discounts through regional consortia.

Find out more about JCS at  subject specific resources incorporating full text databases, journals, e-books and multimedia  academic reference resources, newspaper archives and image collections  curriculum-mapped games and simulations JCS provides schools a choice of high quality online resources from trusted sources:

Find out more about JCS at All JCS resources offer quality-assured content and a ‘safe’ environment for students:  the source of all content is made clear – authors, book titles, dates etc.  the content reviewed for accuracy, lack of bias etc, and cannot be changed by users  resources are updated regularly  the rights cleared for educational use  the images are of excellent quality for displaying on whiteboards.

Find out more about JCS at Why it’s so important to invest in online resources from trusted sources...

Find out more about JCS at Important reasons from the research published by the Think Tank, ‘Demos’... “...many young people are not careful, discerning users of the internet. They are unable to find the information they are looking for or trust the first thing they do. They do not apply fact checks to the information they find. They are unable to recognise bias and propaganda and will not go to a varied number of sources.” ‘Truth, lies and the internet, a report into young people’s digital fluency’, Demos, September 2011

Participants in the Demos research were asked to judge their students’ digital fluency across a number of domains. Results below show the average ratings (5 = ‘very poor’ and 1 = ‘excellent’) Internet skillAverage rating Understand how search engines operate2.57 Understand the difference in quality of information, for example between statistics and anecdotes 3.55 Apply fact-checks or other source verification on the online information they consume 3.45 Recognise bias or propaganda3.53 Visit a wide variety of websites with different perspectives 3.77

Find out more about JCS at A new era for school libraries... “School libraries have an essential role to play in helping students at every stage in their quest for learning and in equipping them to function effectively in an increasingly competitive electronic environment.” School libraries in the UK: a worthwhile past, a difficult present – and a transformed future? Report commissioned by CILIP SLG, published 2010.

Find out more about JCS at Changing role of the school librarian...  Becoming provider of online content as well as book collections.  Responding to the changing needs and preferences of the students by providing resources accessible from a place where they spend a lot of their time – i.e. at their computer, on their handheld device.

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Find out more about JCS at JCS pricing model...  Pricing is calculated on the basis of the total number of learners at schools that choose to subscribe to a particular resource.  The more that subscribe to a resource, the cheaper it becomes.  Just 2,500 or more learners from one or more schools are required to achieve the higher discounts (‘regional consortia rates’) per resource.

Find out more about JCS at  Regional consortia are cumulative so once the higher discounted rates have been reached all future schools wanting to subscribe to that same online resource will be quoted at the cheaper rates.

Resource Price for individual school when no consortium in the region for the resource Price for individual school with a regional consortia for each resource with total of 2,500+ learners % Discount Credo Reference (400+)£748.00£ % Living Language & Literature Online £402.50£ % Philip Allan A-Z Handbooks Online £460.00£ % Philip Allan Magazines Online Archive – 14 titles £ £ % Credo Reference (400+ titles) £748.00£ % Literary Reference Center (EBSCO) £385.25£ % Gale NewsVault – 12 titles£ £ % EXAMPLE SAVINGS FOR SCHOOL WITH 1000 LEARNERS...

Find out more about JCS at 3 easy steps to setting up a subscription Trial the resources (share the access details with teaching staff too, and encourage colleagues in other schools to trial too as the more schools that subscribe the larger the discount) Request a quotation via the JCS home page (you will be quoted the best price available in your region for each resource) 3. JCS to organise your subscription(s) using our new online ordering system. Access will be set up within a few days.

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