E-books
“E books are good if there are no copies left”: a survey of e book usage at UWE Library Services
... of e-books there are still some questions over availability of subject content and how soon coverage will increase to make a real difference to the learning and teaching environment in particular discipline ...
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The case for e book literacy: undergraduate students’ experience with e books for course work
... linking e-book provision with user needs and ...of e-books, and the functionality they can offer ...features e-books offer (as enhancements to printed book content) are only as ...
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An investigation into student use of E-books : A focus on University of Bolton
... of e- books are well ...2006). E-books have the potential to contribute significantly to this. E-books provide a powerful search tool that enables the user to browse a collection ...
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Saudi University Students Views, Perceptions, and Future intentions towards E-books
... of e-learning, the present research aims to provide an experiential insight into the use of e-books, documenting its benefits, issues and future ...
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Turning the page: E-books in the Academic Library
... benefits e-books still pose several complications that make their use, and in this case their borrowing and lending, ...the e-books, are not keen on making access to the e-books ...
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E-books in academic publishing: Theory, practices and technical issues
... of e-pagination to the paper original, which makes PDF e-books perfectly suited for academic use (if judged by this particular criterion) where citing or referring to a particular page is ...of ...
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A Study Of E-Books And C-Books Utilization By University Students And Faculties In Kenya.
... using e-books was more efficient for ...of e- books was on the rise included the im- proved IT – infrastructure within the university, the availability of free and fast internet facilities, ...
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Open Access E-Books in the Field of Health Sciences: A Scientometric Study
... access e-books started in 1971 when Michael Hart started Project Guttenberg (Connaway & Wicht, 2007) to digitise all the print books printed since the invention of the printing press with the aim ...
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The ‘big deal’ approach to acquiring e‐books: a usage‐based study
... Springer e-books are sold in 12 (formerly 13, but Birkhäuser Architecture has recently been sold) annual subject collections, with each year’s collections containing around 3,500 ...The e-book ...
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The Social & Mobile Learning Experiences of Students Using Mobile E-books
... mobile e-books might be expected to experience greater course outcomes and a higher degree of satisfaction [36, 37, 38, ...mobile e-book technologies, as well as how technology might affect students’ ...
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Libraries, patrons, and e-books
... of e-book reading devices has resulted in library staff spending more time on the basic tech support: “Many of our older patrons received electronic devices as gifts over the past two ...the e- book portion ...
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Perception of Junior High School Students about the Use of E-books as Learning Sources
... using e-books to learn. They consider e-books more fun and exciting for their learning ...prefer e-book because it is practical, they also report that e-book gives ease and speed ...
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Identifying e-books authored by faculty: a method for scoping the digital collection and curating a list
... We plan to perform this query every three months in order to flag new authors and newly added e-books. This process does not help for newly published titles that are not currently in the library’s ...
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A life cycle assessment of e-books and printed books in South Africa
... printed books (print system) with those of reading e-books from an Apple Air iPad (digital system), with a specific focus on production of books and use of both options in South ...and ...
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E-Books in academic libraries
... of e-books from a by-product of the Hypertext community to web-delivered packaged ...of e-books is introduced to facilitate discussion, these four main dimensions being: content, format, ...
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Humanities e Books
... 19. E-book readers are beyond the scope of this review but are not entirely tangential to ...make e-books, or all hang separately’ Chronicle of Higher Education, 55, 42 (24 July 2009), ...
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What Drives E-Book Usage: Comparative Study between Paper based Books and E-books
... This research was conducted in Japan with the aim of examining the user motivations behind online shopping, using the UTAUT2 framework with two additional constructs (LT and trust). User data were collected relating to ...
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A study on student and staff awareness, acceptance and usage of e-books at two Queensland universities
... Particularly encouraging was that academics thought that ebooks would be su for the courses they teach and would be preferred for their own research and scholarship if suitable titles were available. Students, especially ...
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A study on student and staff awareness, acceptance and usage of e-books at two Queensland universities
... a study on student and staff awareness acceptance and usage of ebooks at two.. queensland universities.[r] ...
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Using interactive multimedia e-Books for learning blood cell morphology in pediatric hematology
... This study compares a more traditional method of learning using PowerPoint and a second method of using interactive eBooks. It was found that a significantly better learning out- come was achieved by participants in the ...
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