Nudging the envelope: The hard road to mainstreaming UCD Library e-book provision

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Volumn 22, Issue 3 SUPPL.1, 2009, Pages

  Pan, Rosalind ^a   Byrne, Ursula ^a   Murphy, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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EID: 77950791960     PISSN: 09530460     EISSN: 14753308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1629/22S12     Document Type: Article

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11. For further information see the IReL website at http://www.irelibrary.ie/ (accessed 14 September 2009).
12. For a good brief summary of some key milestones in developments in e-books and an interesting summary of usage at Princeton in particular refer to their blog entry at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2008/12/ ebooks-princeton-and-beyond.html (accessed 14 September 2009)
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18. For an excellent bibliography of articles and items covering these and other e-book topics please see that maintained by Information Automation Ltd: http://www.i-a-l.co.uk/resource-biblio.html (accessed 14 September 2009)
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