What do faculty and students really think about e-books?

Aslib Proceedings

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 489-511

  Rowlands, Ian ^a   Nicholas, David ^a   Jamali, Hamid R ^a   Huntington, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic staff; Electronic books; Students

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MARKETING; STATISTICAL METHODS; USER INTERFACES;

ACADEMIC STAFF; ELECTRONIC BOOKS; SUPERBOOK;

STUDENTS;

EID: 36448979168     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1108/00012530710839588     Document Type: Article

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