Graduate students' usage of and attitudes towards e-books: Experiences from Taiwan

Program

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 294-307

  Wu, Ming der ^a   Chen, Shih Chuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

E book usage; E books; Graduate students; Library users; Taiwan; University libraries; User satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960640530     PISSN: 00330337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00330331111151601     Document Type: Review

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