UK eBook platform providers

We’re currently working with three eBook platform providers – Kortext, BibliU and VitalSource – to provide Higher Education institutions (and not for profit) in the UK and Ireland free access to Pearson eBooks until 30th June 2020.

Please note that free access to Pearson eBooks is available to those institutions in the UK and Ireland who are currently delivering courses/modules for the academic year Sept 2019 - Aug 2020 and are experiencing an unplanned shift from on-campus to online delivery due to the impact of Covid19.

You will need to provide your Pearson Account Manager with specific information to help them set up your free access with your chosen platform provider.

Here is an overview as to how the set-up process will work for each platform provider:

For Kortext customers

Pearson will provide your list of ISBNs, titles, author and edition, as well as the full name and university email of the lead lecturer for each module to Kortext
Kortext will contact your institutional library to activate Kortext as a service provider in your local IdP service. Once that is set up (usually a 24 hour process), Kortext will provide you with the URL for each available title.
Once the request has been processed, students will need to register or login with their university email address to claim their free eBooks (each student can access up to 6 titles).

For Vital Source customers

We will direct you to the VitalSource Helps webpages, where you can check your institution’s eligibility to access the free eBooks, where you can either login to an existing VitalSource Bookshelf account or create a new account. Please note that you must use your institution-provided email address.
Once the request has been processed, students will need to register or login with their university email address to claim their free eBooks (each student can access up to 7 titles).

For BibliU customers

Pearson will provide BibliU with your list of ISBNs, titles, author and edition, as well as the full name, job title, university name, university email address and telephone number of both the academic/staff members requesting access but also for your technical/IT team where possible
You will then be given the option to access via the BibliU Single Sign On seamless integration (via Shibbloleth) , or if you do not have the technical capability for Single Sign On, BibliU will send a personalized promo code for your institution that students can use to sign up for access (each student can access up to 6 titles).
Please note that BibliU may charge institutions a platform fee which is not related to free publisher eBook content.

UK eBook platform providers

We’re currently working with three eBook platform providers – Kortext, BibliU and VitalSource – to provide Higher Education institutions (and not for profit) in the UK and Ireland free access to Pearson eBooks until 30th June 2020.

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