Electronic books : challenges for academic libraries

Lonsdale, Ray and Armstrong, Chris Electronic books : challenges for academic libraries. Library Hi Tech, 2001, vol. 19, n. 4, pp. 332-339. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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This paper, based on three recent research projects, addresses some of the issues that are central to the acceptance and integration of electronic scholarly monographs and textbooks (henceforth referred to as e-monographs) into the academic library. The findings suggest that the almost casual use of terms like 'digital library' and 'hybrid library' belies the reality of a slow acceptance of nearly all digital textual resources other than journals, and a demonstrable lack of user take up of most kinds of electronic library-information resource.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Electronic publishing, Academic libraries, e-Books, Acquisitions
Subjects: D. Libraries as physical collections.
A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HP. e-resources.
Depositing user: Chris Armstrong
Date deposited: 30 Mar 2006
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:02
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/7400

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