eBooks Two Years Later: The North Carolina State University Perspective

Gibbs, Nancy

doi:10.7771/2380-176x.3642

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“…The least used subject areas were History of USA, Law, Business, Economics and Management, and Literature. Another usage analysis by Gibbs (2001/2002) identified Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Medicine and Literature to be among the most popular subject areas for e‐book collection. Gibbs analyzed netLibrary usage for 2000 and 2001 in order to assess the state of electronic books at North Carolina State University (NCSU) after two years.…”

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What do faculty and students really think about e‐books?

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This article reports on a large-scale survey of nearly two thousand faculty and students at one institution, University College London, and profiles their use and perceptions of ebooks. The context for the study is an action research project, CIBER's SuperBook, that will further investigate the issues raised in this initial benchmarking survey using deep log analysis and qualitative methods. The survey findings point to various ways in which user uptake and acceptance of e-books may be encouraged. Book discovery behaviour, a key issue for publishers and librarians in both print and electronic environments, emerges as a critical focus for service delivery and enhancement. Context for the researchUntil very recently, research into how digital resources are used within the academy has focused primarily on journals. Considerable steps have been made by CIBER in understanding journal user behaviour, through groundbreaking studies of Emerald, Blackwell Synergy, OhioLINK, and Oxford Open journal platforms. These studies led on the analysis of the digital "fingerprints" left by the users of electronic journals. However, the virtual scholar uses a much wider range of digitally delivered content to achieve their research, teaching and learning goals. As a first step towards a more rounded picture of how digital resources are used, we are now subjecting e-books, the new kid on the block, to the same robust approach that we have previously reserved for journals.There is much talk about the market potential for e-books, especially in a higher education context, but few robust user studies. This is worrying because e-books have, arguably, greater potential to change the information landscape than journals. We are addressing this issue through SuperBook, an action research study, funded by Wiley, Emerald and CIBER, which involves 'dropping' about three thousand carefully selected e-texts into the UCL community and then

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“…In the early 2000s, ebooks became available to academic libraries [1] and the wider world. The University of Michigan Library subscribed to a package of Netlibrary ebooks in the year 2000, and has continued providing and increasing access to ebooks over the ensuing 20 years.…”

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Library Facilitation of eTextbooks in Engineering Classes: Student Adoption and Perception

Lalwani

Grochowski

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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As a means of aiding students who struggle with the high cost of textbooks, some libraries now leverage their ebook subscription packages to provide eTextbooks for courses. At the University of Michigan, the engineering librarians routinely offer ebook versions of engineering textbooks whenever possible. Although this institution has been following this principle for the past ten years, it has done so with little direct knowledge of students' preferences regarding their options for print versus ebook format for their textbooks. Some studies have shown that students expressed a preference for using their textbooks in print format. To assess the usefulness of the service of providing eTextbooks, in the Fall 2019 semester the engineering librarians at the University of Michigan developed and sent a survey to engineering graduate and undergraduate students whose textbooks were available as eTextbooks. The survey sought to learn about students' use of the ebooks and their opinions about eTextbooks. As a follow up to the survey, the librarians met with two focus groups who provided more qualitative information on student use of eTextbooks. Survey and focus group results may inform not only changes to the service of providing eTextbooks, but also can be shared with publishers to potentially inform improvements to ebook platforms. This paper reports on the results of the survey and focus group and implications for the future.

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Electronic Book Usage at a Master's Level I University: A Longitudinal Study

Bailey

2006

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

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eBooks Two Years Later: The North Carolina State University Perspective

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What do faculty and students really think about e‐books?

What do faculty and students really think about e‐books?

Library Facilitation of eTextbooks in Engineering Classes: Student Adoption and Perception

Electronic Book Usage at a Master's Level I University: A Longitudinal Study

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