...Betsaida M. Reyes; Frances A. Devlin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the collection development practices regarding e-books among librarians who manage French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish (Romance) materials. The authors aim to describe factors that influence acquisition of e...

...Anna Leonard; Maritha Snyman Purpose The purpose of the paper is to determine how undergraduate students at the University of Namibia perceive and use e-books. This paper aims to report on the result of a study that investigated the adoption of, views about and use of e-books at the University...

...Sadaf Rafiq; Nosheen Fatima Warraich Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the perception of medical undergraduate students regarding their behavior towards use and non-use of e-books. It also elucidates their preferences between print and electronic book format. Design/methodology...

...Hanumappa Anilkumar; Mallikarjun Dora; Asha Desai Purpose The purpose of the study is to review the e-books collection, namely, Ebrary Academic Complete, by understanding its features, cost and usage at Vikram Sarabhai Library, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA). The study attempts...

... without significantly affecting the collection. For some of these titles, the author determined that they might be worth replacing with available e-books and the author did so. Design/methodology/approach A brief overview is provided to delineate why deselection is important, and how it can...

... count and included data from 2002 to 2014, inclusively. The number of viewings was also tracked and included data from 2002 to 2013, inclusively. Lamothe (2013b) previously defined a viewing as the act of opening, downloading or printing a page or chapter from an e-book. The analysis was conducted...

...-by-title selection and a desire to explore an alternative to all or nothing e-book packages, the University of Wyoming Libraries (UWL) participated in Elsevier’s Evidence-Based Selection purchase model for 2011 and 2012 e-book content in the 2013 calendar year. After an initial investment, the library...

... – This research is one of very few studies systematically and quantitatively comparing usage levels between e-monographs from growing collections to collections that have not had any new titles added recently. Because it has been demonstrated that e-books of a monographic nature are used very differently from...

...Cathy Goodwin Purpose – The aim of this study is to compare print and e-book use for identical titles in the e-Duke Scholarly Collection (e-DSC) from 2011 to 2013 to determine format preference for a discrete collection of titles in humanities and social sciences. Design/methodology/approach...

...Alain R. Lamothe Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the results from a quantitative analysis comparing usage between collections of individually purchased e‐books and collections of e‐books purchased as part of large consortially negotiated bundles. The aim of this study...

...Bradford Lee Eden In the introduction the editor likens e‐books to a pomegranate: it is complicated, very different on the inside than on the outside, and its difficulty will often make one choose something more familiar. Chapter 1 provides a history of the evolution of the e‐book, examining...

...Merinda McLure; Amy Hoseth Purpose This paper aims to provide a snapshot of student and staff attitudes towards e‐books, collected through a web‐based survey, as well as an analysis of use data for a specific universe of e‐books provided via a patron‐driven purchasing model and accessed during...

...Kelly Lynch Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a conference report on the issues surrounding the emergence of e‐books discussed during panels and presentations at the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair (October 12‐16). Design/methodology/approach This report was generated based...

...James Cory Tucker Purpose This paper aims to provide an assessment of an ebook collection in an academic library, and attempts to locate usage trends by subject and publisher. Design/methodology/approach The research was based on: three years of usage data from two e‐book packages: NetLibrary...

...Jenny Lynne Semenza; Regina Koury; Catherine Gray Purpose This article aims to provide a comprehensive step by step plan on creating a Zombie Library, a physical collection of e‐books through the use of QR codes. Drawing on the collective authors' experience working with the QR codes creation...

...Fayaz Ahmad Loan Purpose The main purpose of the present study is to identify open access e‐book collections in selected digital archives related to social sciences in general and greater Central Asia in particular. Design/methodology/approach The selected digital archives, which were all rich...