[PDF] Top 20 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, ... See full document

... to e-books, results show that the two most used methods are online databases and the Web, see Figure 6 ...Alternatively, e-books can be obtained via the Web (for example Google, online ...few ... See full document

... of books which is an indispensable document to meet the needs of academic and the general needs Guttenberg the best known publishers of electronic books started publishing E-books in ... See full document

... affecting libraries, respond to some scenarios of change (such as whether they thought books would ever completely disappear from library collections), and also some direct questions about how they went ... See full document

... Google Books which mirror a print library’s holdings and opac metadata, the link from the search engine across to Google Books will tend not to ...copyright books tend to predate the ISBN system, ... See full document

... professional libraries, such as HGL (Harvard Geospatial Library) searching geos- patial data information, OASIS (Online Archival Search Information System) searching archives, manuscripts, photographs, paintings, ... See full document

... of e-textbooks. A library with an e-textbook collection could increase the trialability of e- textbooks as there is no or low risk and no additional cost involved for students to try out the ...of ... See full document

... one: libraries are delivering many new and innovative services, are embracing changes in their role and responsibilities, and are securing greater support from within their ...need. Libraries have always ... See full document

... to academic staff, researchers and students than the use of print journals ...Universities e-journals, electronic books and other e-resources are being subscribed [6, ...peer-reviewed ... See full document

... for libraries and information centers to accept this certainty of technological transformation while examining appropriateness of their current products and ...to e-resources sources offered by the library ... See full document

... E Ink’s May prototype had a display resolution of 160 dots per inch ...1,200dpi. E Ink would need to at least double the resolution of its displays ...this, e-ink is an improvement on current ... See full document

... In addition, the findings of the study concerning the students’ preferences for form of instructor communication indicated that greater numbers of US students at LSU than that of the Turkish students at AIBU prefer ... See full document

... Habit is defined as the extent to which people tend to perform behaviors automatically because of learning (Limayem et al., 2007). The passage of chronological time (i.e., experience) can result in the formation of ... See full document

... commercial e- books and e-journals; spatial and numerical data; digital preservation; research data management; Canadian documentary heritage; and open access e- books and ... See full document

... thalmology, Academic Medicine, Journal of School Nurs- ing, and Annals of Family Medicine and those listed in Additional file 1: Table S2 have turned to librarians and information specialists for peer ... See full document

... web e-journal title and subject listing for a search-only opac ...for e-journals in a web-based environment, how much less effective is e-journal promotion when records describing them are hidden in ... See full document

... of e-books during an assignment undertaken by a group of ...use e-books to achieve their scholarly objectives and to understand how students use information presented in e-book ...how ... See full document

... the academic libraries part- ners with IT firms, for instance, IPMC and Data Kite which can provide technic- al service effectively and support libraries solution it makes the formation of consortium ... See full document

... development of Faculty's Used Books E-platform will improved the communication between sellers and buyers of used books community and could be a reference to students of Faculty of Compu[r] ... See full document

... The e-Reference team consulted with the serials librarian and discovered serials staff were using unique codes on e-journals and current print subscriptions to identify publisher packages, group ... See full document