We report findings from an assessment of e-book user experience (search and information
seeking) from usage data and user tests. The usage data showed that most reading …

E-books are being widely adopted as a new format of scholarly information to meet
increasing educational and research needs in academic libraries. The advantages of e …

The University of California Libraries initiated the Springer e-Book Pilot Project with the goal
of developing appropriate systemwide processes for acquiring and managing licensed e …

What might the student experience of using e-book readers be in terms of functionality, ease
of use and availability of content? Do e-readers fit into current study practices? These were …

Purpose–This study aims to investigate and analyze the usage patterns of electronic book (e-
book) users and their perceptions of e-books from various perspectives. Recently, e-book …

This article seeks to understand information behavior in the context of the academic e-book
user experience, shaped by a disparate set of vendor platforms licensed by libraries. These …

This article presents a systematic review of E-book user studies from 2001 to 2017. It
focused on qualitative and quantitative studies that examined academic user groups' …

This paper investigates how electronic books (e-books) are used for scholarly activity. It
focuses on the end-users of e-books in a case study which aimed to establish how scholars …

Purpose–The purpose of this article is to report on a large‐scale survey that was carried out
to assess academic users' awareness, perceptions and existing levels of use of e‐books …

Objective–This article describes how librarians systematically compared different e-book
platforms to identify which features and design impact usability and user satisfaction …