EDINA newsline
September 2008: Volume 13 Issue 3
Some 750,000 staff and students in the schools belonging to WMnet (the West Midlands Regional Broadband Consortium) will have access to Education Image Gallery (EIG) from 1 October 2008.
WMnet has subscribed to EIG as part of the pilot JISC Collections for Schools initiative, launched in April 2008 and funded by Becta.
In addition to EIG, JISC Collections for Schools allows schools, Local Education Authorities and Regional Broadband Consortia to subscribe to a selection of 11 other JISC Collections resources, including Grove Music Online, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the Science Resource Centre.