... Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Electronic books Log analysis Data mining Use patterns HEC e-books databases The rapid changes in information and communication technology (ICT) have revolutionized every field of life. These changes have...

... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Students Schools Library instruction Electronic books Learning methods Skills development E-books and e-textbooks are digital formats of print books, which are accessed on a variety of different platforms and devices. For the purpose of this study...

...Marietjie De Beer; Marieta Van der Merwe; Liezl Ball; Ina Fourie Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the challenges faced by national libraries regarding the legal deposit of electronic books, and to make recommendations for issues to consider – especially with regard to developing...

... express their views or comment on a particular book (Lin et al., 2007). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Digital libraries Reading Multi-media User interfaces Electronic books Search engine Finding a good book can be difficult as most readers attempt to satisfy...

... one of the earliest online reading platforms in China. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Electronic publishing Chinese User studies Electronic books Qualitative methods Because the rapid development of network and mobile digital technology has greatly diversified...

... Electronic books Software development User interfaces Redesign It is almost 30 years since digital reading was developed. With the advancement of information technology (IT), people's reading activity gradually transferred from paper-based reading to digital reading. Recently, e-books have gone...

... be contacted at: jrichard@ucla.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Electronic books User studies E‐books With the advent of Michael S. Hart's Project Gutenberg in 1971, books have been crossing over the digital divide. As Hart said: An eBook has to be searchable, quotable...

... reading service and help service providers better understand users' demands. Also it may provide some useful information for further research in mobile reading. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Electronic books Mobile reading User behaviour Educational level China Students User...

... offering free e‐books with full content without accessibility restriction (in term of duration of accessibility). Clyde (2005) examined a number of different presentation formats for electronic books. The author has discussed number of potential benefits and disadvantages of e‐books. Clyde (2005...

... --> Internet Search engines Copyright law Electronic journals Electronic books Digital libraries Google, one of the most popular and widely used internet search engines, has embarked on an ambitious library project aiming at providing free, online access to all works no longer in copyright...

... into eBooks almost without exception. Being the market leader and innovator of a new business model in electronic books in the STM area, Springer has conducted a study on the implications of the Springer eBook collection in comparison to its print book activities. Design/methodology/approach The study...

... Publishing Limited 2008 --> Electronic journals Electronic books Statistical analysis User studies Usage statistics generated in‐house or reported by publishers and vendors is one important factor used to justify increasing investments by libraries in electronic resources. This volume...

..., and their dynamic and developing nature. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Electronic books Digital libraries Electronic publishing Academic libraries have traditionally played an important role in providing access to and disseminating information across learning and research communities...

... community. Content creation will be a major responsibility of INFLIBNET. Margam Madhusudhan can be contacted at: mmadhu@libinfosci.du.ac.in © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Electronic books Electronic publishing Serials Higher education India The demand for journals...

...Danielle M. Carlock; Anali Maughan Perry Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe how, in the spring of 2007, Arizona State University Libraries held a focus group of selected faculty to discover their perceptions and use of electronic books (e‐books) in their research and teaching...

... Electronic books Digital libraries OPACs “Computers and libraries are well suited” – so begins its preface. At some point in future they may become one. Thus technology literacy and computer skills are major assets for LIS professionals. This concise book caters to a mixed readership of both...

... with another. As stated above this article focuses on commercial electronic books. Commercial means that the e‐book can be bought in the regular book trade. The restriction to commercial e‐books was conducted because the number of e‐books supplied is an indicator for the demand of e‐books, following...

... of electronic books (Sainsbury, 1996). In a recently published monograph, Sellen and Harper (2002) pointed out that paper has “affordances” or a unique set of qualities that permit specific kinds of uses. Paper is tangible, can be shuffled, sorted, annotated, spread out, and quickly scanned. In comparison...

...). From the data in Table II it can be seen that the same library (UT‐Austin) uses the three different e‐book collections differently; however, there is still a general congruency on the most heavily used subjects. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Electronic books Libraries USA Information...