Exploring E-book Usage Among Faculty and Graduate Students in the Geosciences: Results of a Small Survey and Focus Group Approach

Foote, Jody Bales; Rupp‐Serrano, Karen

doi:10.1080/0194262x.2010.497716

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“…Respondents indicated that convenience is a significant driver and that e‐books should emulate the functionality of the World Wide Web (e.g., readability, minimum scrolling and clicking, integration of multimedia, hyperlinking, consistency in look‐and‐feel, ability to manipulate and print text and graphics). In a further qualitative study of geoscience academics and graduate students, Foote and Rupp‐Serrano () found that discipline‐specific issues are significant in the adoption and viability of e‐books. These issues include requirements for high‐quality graphics, ability to export graphics to other software and to manipulate graphics, need for three‐dimensional graphics, facility for multimedia, ease of outputting in various formats (.pdf, html), provision of hyperlinks, and customization of content.…”

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“…Disadvantages included onscreen reading, navigation issues, searching issues, and Digital Rights Management (DRM) issues. Foote and Rupp‐Serrano () also reported the advantages and disadvantages of e‐books from a somewhat different perspective. In term of advantages, academic users found e‐books useful for initial research, good for fact checking, capable of linking to a course‐management system, and provided cost savings for students.…”

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Application of the task‐technology fit model to structure and evaluate the adoption of E‐books by Academics

D’Ambra

Wilson

Akter

2012

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

136

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Increasingly, e-books are becoming alternatives to print books in academic libraries, thus providing opportunities to assess how well the use of e-books meets the requirements of academics. This study uses the tasktechnology fit (TTF) model to explore the interrelationships of e-books, the affordances offered by smart readers, the information needs of academics, and the "fit" of technology to tasks as well as performance. We propose that the adoption of e-books will be dependent on how academics perceive the fit of this new medium to the tasks they undertake as well as what added-value functionality is delivered by the information technology that delivers the content. The study used content analysis and an online survey, administered to the faculty in Medicine, Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales, to identify the attributes of a TTF construct of e-books in academic settings. Using exploratory factor analysis, preliminary findings confirmed annotation, navigation, and output as the core dimensions of the TTF construct. The results of confirmatory factor analysis using partial least squares path modeling supported the overall TTF model in reflecting significant positive impact of task, technology, and individual characteristics on TTF for e-books in academic settings; it also confirmed significant positive impact of TTF on individuals' performance and use, and impact of using e-books on individual performance. Our research makes two contributions: the development of an e-book TTF construct and the testing of that construct in a model validating the efficacy of the TTF framework in measuring perceived fit of e-books to academic tasks.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Application of the task‐technology fit model to structure and evaluate the adoption of E‐books by Academics

D’Ambra

Wilson

Akter

2012

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

136

111

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“…Studies have confirmed that library websites are critical e-book access points and, for the majority of undergraduate students, the primary e-book discovery tool. 6 In addition to web links, catalogue records are added for every title. The addition of bibliographic records for each e-book has been demonstrated to significantly increase use.…”

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Factors Influencing the Usage of an Electronic Book Collection: Size of the E-book Collection, the Student Population, and the Faculty Population

Lamothe

2013

CRL

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This paper presents the results of a quantitative and systematic investigation exploring online e-book usage at the J.N. Desmarais Library of Laurentian University over a 9-year period. The size of an e-book collection was determined to show evidence of an extremely strong relationship with the level of usage e-books experienced. Of all factors examined during the course of this study, it was the size of the collection that exhibited the strongest association to usage levels and would suggest just how important the size and content of a collection can be to patron acceptance and utilization. Of all student academic levels, doctoral students exhibited the strongest relationship with e-book usage, while undergraduate students showed signs of the weakest. Faculty demonstrated the overall weakest relationship with e-book usage.

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“…This is supported by (Clark and Rumbold, 2006) who also reported students appreciated and valued the convenience of e-book features such as portability (non-physical), mobility (easy access) and searching features. Moreover, Foote and Rupp-Serrano (2010) found that students desired e-books feature particularly in relation to searching, highlighting, and taking notes which are common functions when using books as reference materials. Richardson and Mahmood (2012) conducted a study to investigate user satisfaction when using different e-readers (iPad, Barnes and Noble's Noke, Border's Kobo Reader and Sony Digital Reader) for reading e-book.…”

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Continuance intention of using ebook among higher education students

Tri-Agif¹,

Noorhidawati²,

Ghalebandi³

2016

MJLIS

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This paper investigates determinant of continuance intention to use e-book among higher education students. The determinants used in this paper are adopted from Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Expectancy Disconfirmation Theory (EDT). The quantitative study employed random sampling where the email invitation which contained a hypertext link of the survey page, enables the participants to access to the survey hosted in Google Drive. Out of 760 sample size, a total of 650 responses were gathered with 509 valid responses used for analysis. The data were analysed to test the relationship between determinants of continuance intention to use e-book among higher education students. The finding demonstrates that determinant of continuance intention to use ebook are based on Satisfaction, while Satisfaction is strongly determined by Perceived Ease of Use and Confirmation of using e-book. Internet self-efficacy is reported to have strong effect on Satisfaction through Perceived Ease of Use, while Perceived Quality affects Satisfaction of using ebook through Confirmation. In general findings from this study are beneficial for libraries in that determinants of continuance intention of using e-books could also be used in selecting and evaluating e-books features before subscription. Additionally e-book vendors could use these findings to improve and enhance features of their e-books services.

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Exploring E-book Usage Among Faculty and Graduate Students in the Geosciences: Results of a Small Survey and Focus Group Approach

Cited by 34 publications

References 14 publications

Application of the task‐technology fit model to structure and evaluate the adoption of E‐books by Academics

Application of the task‐technology fit model to structure and evaluate the adoption of E‐books by Academics

Factors Influencing the Usage of an Electronic Book Collection: Size of the E-book Collection, the Student Population, and the Faculty Population

Continuance intention of using ebook among higher education students

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