Abstract

HERNANDEZ SALAZAR, Patricia; NICHOLAS, David  and  ROWLAND, Ian. E-books access and use by the higher education community in the United Kingdom. Rev. Interam. Bibliot [online]. 2009, vol.32, n.2, pp.13-58. ISSN 0120-0976.

The article describes the results of a research conducted to determine the e-books use by the higher education community in the United Kingdom, the study was conducted by CIBER, a research group within the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies ⁄ SLAIS at the University College London. Nowadays, the design of educational systems in the United Kingdom is based on building a learning society, because of this, it undertakes the learning society. It describes the research: background; objectives; methods and techniques; and results. At the end it includes some conclusions. For gathering the data it was applied a quantitative method and a quantitative technique: the Deep Log Analysis method, and a benchmark survey. A major conclusion is that university communities are demanding and using electronic books.

Keywords : Deep Log Analysis; user studies; benchmark survey; higher education community; quantitative methods.

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