Tuesday 5 February 2008

Journal articles about ebooks

Aslib Proceedings. Vol. 59, No.6 2007
What do faculty and students really think about ebooks?
Report of a large scale survey conducted as part of the CIBER SuperBook project at UCL that preceded the current JISC ebooks project that we are taking part in.

Update. Vol. 6 (11) November 2007
Ebooks: setting up the national observatory project.
Caren Milloy on the process of setting up the JISC ebooks project, and why there are so few ebooks in the collection. (Note: there is a typo in the article - there are 36 ebooks in the collection, not 136!)

Serials. Vol.20 No. 2 July 2007
E-textbooks: opportunities, innovations, distractions and dilemmas.
Why do students still rely on printed textbooks and what might replace the textbook in future? Is the idea of an 'ebook' distracting publishers from thinking about the possibilities of alternative forms of digital courseware?

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