... Limited 2010 Electronic books User studies Information studies Attitudes Students The history of electronic books dates back to 1971 with the advent of Project Gutenberg (Hart, 1992), and the history of portable e‐book readers dates back to 1998 with the announcement of two portable...

...; documentation and interpretive essays, and pedagogic information ‐ suggestions for classroom discussion; exchanges between author and editor, etc. Monographics Academic staff Electronic books This paper reports on a research project to determine how the academic monograph is perceived and valued...

... Limited 2009 Electronic books United Kingdom Libraries Students During the last decade libraries together with publishers have made a successful move towards the provision of journals and databases in online format. The next information resource that is destined to be part...

... discussed. David Nicholas can be contacted at: david.nicholas@ucl.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Electronic books User studies Libraries Students With e‐books now arriving thick and fast on the academic market it is clearly important that their early impact...

... to which electronic books were put, and to obtain an understanding of the most effective library marketing and communication channels. Design/methodology/approach An e‐mail invitation to participate in the survey was distributed to all UCL staff and students (approximately 27,000) in November 2006...

...<0.02). Internet Electronic publishing United Kingdom Electronic books User studies The growth of information and communications technologies has heralded dramatic developments in the publishing world. Electronic publishing has emerged as a major growth phenomenon in a rapidly evolving...

... to access information more effectively than would otherwise be possible. Visually disabled people would also have the same opportunity to access knowledge as their sighted colleagues. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Blind people Internet Electronic books Access to information on the World Wide Web...

... Electronic books Information resources management User satisfaction Derivation of interaction environment and information object properties for enhanced integrated access and value-adding to electronic documents Chern Li Liew and Schubert Foo Division of Information Studies, School of Applied Science...

...Tony Cawkell Books include novels, dictionaries, telephone books, textbooks, anthologies, instruction manuals, proceedings of meetings and directories. The phrase “electronic books” has been applied to some types of CD‐ROM systems, palm‐top CD players, on‐demand text, electronic document systems...