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The Evaluation of Electronic Books [PDF]

Educational and Training Technology International, 1991
Is there a future for electronic books in education? This paper presents a preliminary evaluation of two categories of electronic book, reference‐type and textbook‐type, from an ‘outward’ perspective, focusing on implementation likelihood in school and university settings.
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Practical overlap: The possibility of replacing print books with e-books [PDF]

, 2013
The increasing availability and prominence of e-books has led to a perception in some quarters that the requirement for physical books is decreasing, as most, or all scholarly material is openly available in digital form. Some academic administrators and
Anderson, C, Pham, J
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Users’ Awareness of Electronic Books is Limited. A review of: Levine‐Clark, Michael. “Electronic Book Usage: A Survey at the University of Denver.” portal: Libraries and the Academy 6.3 (Jul. 2006): 285‐99.

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2007
Objective – To determine if university library users are aware of electronic books,and how and why electronic books are used.Design – Survey.Setting – University of Denver.Subjects – Two thousand sixty‐seven graduate and undergraduate students, faculty ...
Gale G. Hannigan
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Exploring Perceptions of E-Books Among CEGEP Students and Faculty | Exploration des perceptions relatives aux livres électroniques chez les étudiants et enseignants au cégep

Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2019
Because they are believed to be able to lower the costs of an education, e-books have been factored into the technology plans for community colleges and CEGEPs during the current decade.
Yuan Chen, Saul Carliner, Salvador Garcia Martinez, Ann-Louise Davidson   +3 more
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Positioning librarians as essential to the new virtual learning environments [PDF]

This paper discusses the explosion in the use of electronic resources by students and the development of e-books. The existing high usage will intensify as virtual learning environments (VLEs) become the primary means of interaction between students and
Ball, David
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Another Side of the E-Book Puzzle [PDF]

, 2007
Electronic books, while not as popular as electronic journals, continue to be produced, marketed, and used with marginal popularity. Why is it that we see a strong public demand for electronic journals and a reluctance to use e-books?
Thomas, Susan E.
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Electronic books: their definition, usage and role in libraries [PDF]

, 2002
This review examines the literature to establish a definition of electronic books and discovers this is currently related more to hardware and software (viewing technology) than content.
Sawyer, Susan K.
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iBook – a New Medium?

Knjižnica, 2012
EXTENDED ABSTRACT: On January 19th 2012 Apple launched iBooks®2 for iPad® - a new application for downloading digital content to the iPad - and the new software (iBooks Author®) which allows creating and publishing digital content using the .iba ...
Benjamin Štular
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What do faculty and students really think about e-books? [PDF]

, 2007
Purpose - The purpose of this article is to report on a large-scale survey that was carried Out to assess academic users' awareness, perceptions and existing levels of use of e-books.
Huntington, P, Jamali, HR, Nicholas, D, Rowlands, I   +3 more
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HELIN Task Force on Licensing Agreements Final Report, 2/28/2010 [PDF]

, 2010
Final report of the HELIN Task Force on Licensing Agreements to Robert Aspri, Executive Director of the HELIN Library Consortium, a group eminating from the HELIN Reference Committee, to investigate the issue of consortial licensing agreements for ...
Task Force on Licensing Agreements, HELIN
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