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. 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),
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