info:oai:eprints.rclis.org:5987info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:oai_dc Virtually There? E-books in UK academic libraries Armstrong, Chris Edwards, Louise Lonsdale, Ray EB. Printing, electronic publishing, broadcasting. D. Libraries as physical collections. HO. e-books. This article presents the results from a recent survey into the provision of electronic books within academic libraries in the UK. Where relevant the results are supplemented by data from two other surveys concerned with e-book provision and electronic information services undertaken by the authors. Incidence of provision of e-books from individual publishers and through aggregators is reported. Reasons for non-provision and attitudes towards the medium are discussed, and issues concerned with bibliographical access are explored. The article concludes with a discussion of the role and influence of the E-book Working Group set up by the UK body responsible for networking and electronic resources in higher and further education: the Joint Information Services Committee (JISC). Emerald 2002 Journal Article (Print/Paginated) PeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/5987/1/ArmstrongEdwardsLonsdaleProgram_Ebooks_article_2002_final.pdf Armstrong, Chris and Edwards, Louise and Lonsdale, Ray Virtually There? E-books in UK academic libraries. Program : electronic library and information systems, 2002, vol. 36, n. 4, pp. 216-227. [cited var currentTime = new Date();var month = currentTime.getMonth() + 1;var day = currentTime.getDate();var year = currentTime.getFullYear();document.write(month + "/" + day + "/" + year)]. Available from WWW: http://eprints.rclis.org/5987/. [Journal Article (Print/Paginated)] http://eprints.rclis.org/5987/