title: Virtually There? E-books in UK academic libraries
creator: Armstrong, Chris
creator: Edwards, Louise
creator: Lonsdale, Ray
subject: EB. Printing, electronic publishing, broadcasting.
subject: D. Libraries as physical collections.
subject: HO. e-books.
description: 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). 
publisher: Emerald
date: 2002
type: Journal Article (Print/Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://eprints.rclis.org/5987/1/ArmstrongEdwardsLonsdaleProgram_Ebooks_article_2002_final.pdf
identifier: 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)]
relation: http://eprints.rclis.org/5987/