This paper aims to report on research into the criteria and processes that academic libraries use to choose e‐books. Therefore the processes and criteria that they apply in the selection and acquisition of e‐books may potentially have significant consequences for the future viability of e‐books as a product. Academic libraries have traditionally had a major role in selecting books and making them available to learners, scholars, and researchers.
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– E‐books are an important and growing type of digital resource. Originality/value ‐ Usage data over three years provided evidence to help libraries select a business model for acquiring ebooks the research provides assessment of ebook collections to identify trends across publishers and subjects. Practical implications ‐ The paper assists in identifying usage patterns of ebooks across publishers and subjects compares two different business models of obtaining ebooks and helps with effective selection of ebooks to support teaching and learning. Research limitations/implications ‐ For circulation rate of each ebook package, two years of data were not available for Ebrary, resulting in incomplete comparison over three-year period between the two packages. Findings ‐ The research found that Ebrary showed increased usage over time NetLibrary demonstrated decreased usage subject analysis showed ebooks in health sciences and hotel had highest usage publisher analysis results illustrated the fact that five publishers had highest usage in both ebook collections. The research evaluated usage difference over time between the two packages and analyzed subject and publisher usage. Design/methodology/approach ‐ The research was based on: three years of usage data from two e-book packages: NetLibrary and Ebrary two methods of purchase: NetLibrary was a one-time purchase Ebrary is purchased on a subscription basis. Purpose ‐ This paper aims to provide an assessment of an ebook collection in an academic library, and attempts to locate usage trends by subject and publisher. The challenge remains to find pricing models that allow more libraries to acquire ebook collections when budgets may be largely committed to journals. The study concludes that this 'big deal' approach has worked well: all but one of the subject areas have been well used, the number of unused titles continues to diminish each year, older titles continue to attract significant usage, and the cost per use is relatively low. Analysis was performed to simulate the effects of user driven purchasing to determine whether this model could apply to this type of content. The combined data was used to study how usage of ebooks is influenced by factors such as the subject area, the year of publication and the length of time since the collection was acquired. The usage reports were augmented with contextual titl elevel information drawn from Springer's eBooks Title List. This paper presents the results of an analysis of COUNTER ebook usage reports for SpringerLink ebook collections purchased since July 2008 at the University of Liverpool. Their cognitive makeup, the degree of user access to the e-books and the Presented in a model, which comprises the ICT competencies of the students, The possibleįactors which may be related to e-book use are categorized into 4 groups and There are significant differenceīetween the frequency of e-book use and gender between past usage of e-bookĪnd preference for electronic textbooks and reference books. Users and non-users of e-books prefer to use the printed version of textbooksĮspecially if the text is continuously used.
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Prefer to use e-versions of textbooks and reference sources. Usages are mainly for writing assignment or project work. Those who are users of e-books find e-books easy to use and their The University of Malaya Library Website, or are referred to it by their The students become aware of the e-book service mainly while visiting The Internet, rate themselves as skilled in Internet use and have positiveĪttitude towards the e-book service, the level of e-book use is still low The results indicate even though the students are heavy users of A total of 206 (82%) useable questionnaires form the basis Kuala Lumpur use or do not use the e-books service provided by the University This exploratory study focuses on identifying the usage pattern of e-booksĮspecially on how, when, where and why undergraduates at the Faculty ofĬomputer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT), University of Malaya (UM),