Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
Studies of e-book useAfter many years of promise, e-books are on the rise
Vendor statistics attest to their growing popularity
At California State University, East Bay, which lists in its catalog over 30,000 e-books acquired through subscriptions from ebrary, Safari and NetLibrary, statistics display growth
Summary
Studies of e-book useAfter many years of promise, e-books are on the rise. Vendor statistics attest to their growing popularity. In 2009, the Primary Research Group published a survey of American college students’ use of library e-book collections,[5] a stratified, representative probability study of randomly selected full-time students at approximately 250 US public four-year colleges, private four-year colleges, and public and private two-year colleges. Ebrary asked: “How important are the following features to e-books?”7 The top five features included searching, anytime access, off-campus access, ability for more than one student to use an e-book at the same time, and downloading to laptop.
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