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The current situation of e-books in academic and public libraries in Sweden

open access: yesLibellarium: Journal for the Research of Writing, Books, and Cultural Heritage Institutions, 2014
Introducing e-books into Swedish libraries has been influenced by the idea of equal access to all media for all Swedish citizens as well as by librarians’ wish to provide the best possible service to their users. Libraries perceived this new resource and
Elena Macevičiūtė, Martin Borg
doaj   +1 more source

Procuring e-books for the virtual learning environment [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper discusses the explosion in the use of electronic resources by students and the development of e-books. The existing high usage will be intensified as virtual learning environments become the primary means of interaction between students and ...
Ball, David
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E-books in practice: the librarian's perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
It has become unimaginable to provide information – particularly scientific information – without e-books. They have become part of today’s combination of media, which includes printed books and journals, e-journals, e-books, and databases.
Ball, R., Ball, Rafael
core   +1 more source

The case for e-book literacy: undergraduate students’ experience with e-books for course work [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper investigates how electronic books (e-books) are used for scholarly activity. It focuses on the end-users of e-books in a case study which aimed to establish how scholars use and learn from e-books and the limitations of academic e-books. There
Hawes, Graeme, Muir, Laura
core   +1 more source

LSA & LDA topic modeling classification: comparison study on e-books

open access: yes, 2020
With the rapid growth of information technology, the amount of unstructured text data in digital libraries is rapidly increased and has become a big challenge in analyzing, organizing and how to classify text automatically in E-research repository to get
S. Mohammed, Salam Al-augby
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exploring faculty experiences with e-books: a focus group [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
: 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.
Perry, Anali Maughan   +1 more
core   +1 more source

E-Books : its accessibility, problems and prospects in context to science & technology libraries in India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The production and usage of e-books is growing at a fast pace and warrants serious consideration, especially in libraries and information centres of Indian universities, institutions of Higher Education, S & T Organizations and other institutions of ...
Ghosh, T. B.
core   +1 more source

“BREATHE”: THE SPATIAL TRIANGULATION OF EVERYDAY LITERARY EXPERIENCE IN AMBIENT LITERATURE AND M-READING

open access: yesPerífrasis. Revista de Literatura, Teoría y Crítica, 2022
Este artículo propone el análisis de “Breathe” —un cuento para smartphones que personaliza su contenido según datos contextuales del lector— a través de la “triangulación” de tres espacios de interacción interdependientes: historia, tecnología y ...
Juan Álvarez Umbarila
doaj   +1 more source

Books in a virtual world: The evolution of the e-book and its lexicon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Over recent years there has been considerable confusion over the use of the term ‘e-book’, and this article examines the variety of definitions used to date while proposing a definitive construct.
Armstrong, Chris J
core   +1 more source

Assessing the Effects of Funds of Identity on L2 Learners’ Willingness to Read E-books [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of English Language Teaching and Learning
Objective: This study explores the effect of recruiting topics highly valued by students along with the interest-igniting mode of reading texts in the site of practice, collectively framed as funds of identity (FoI), on willingness to read (WTR).Methods:
Afsar Rouhi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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