Sentences with phrase «of academic ebooks»

JSTOR, which is considering adding more legal periodicals to its database, has partnered with major university presses to enlarge its collection of academic ebooks.

As the reach of digital textbooks expands into various levels and stages of education, from preschool through medical school, one of the underserved areas of academic ebook publishing has been vocational education.

While some sectors of the education industry are still waiting for the explosion of digital textbooks that can provide budget - friendly solutions with immediate updates to new information, e-textbook providers are already making improvements to the design concept of an academic ebook.

Not exact matches

As noted by education professor Vicki Jacobs in her eBook, Vocabulary: The Foundation of Literacy, researchers Bromley (2007) and Graves (2008) found that vocabulary knowledge accounts for much of a student's verbal aptitude, and that a student's verbal prowess is a strong predictor of K — 12 academic achievement.

This research - based eBook written by Dr. Vicki A. Jacobs, Harvard Graduate School of Education explores how direct instruction of academic vocabulary is critical to the academic success of all students — especially struggling readers, English language learners, and those from socio - economically disadvantaged home environments.

The day started with «Original Research on the Growing Importance of eBooks in Library Collections,» an overview of the Public, School and Academic ebook Survey with Ian Singer, VP, Content & Business Development for Media Source, Inc..

eBook Platforms: Lessons Learned from Managing Multiple Providers — p. 12 by Trey Shelton, Tara Cataldo, and Amy Buhler — Gives an overview of multiple eBook platforms from the perspective of a large academic library.

Promoting ebooks in schools is another area where the country can see considerable uptake, not only for the duration of the academic curricula but far beyond that, helping students grow accustomed to reading on ebooks in the future.

Experts pegged the high rate of piracy as far as academic ebooks are concerned to the high price tag that these typically cost.

As library ebook lending for both academic and public institutions continues to make steady progress, libraries are finally able to «shop» the competition to provide the best user experience for their patrons, the largest catalogs of bestselling titles, and investigate the available features of different platforms.

A workshop on libraries and ebooks was held with Skip Dye, VP, Library and Academic Sales, Random House; George Coe, President, Library & Education, Baker - Taylor; Barbara Genco, Manager, Special Projects, Library Journal; Stephanie Anderson, Head of Readers Advisory, Darien Library; and Heather McCormack,... [Read more...]

The Connecticut State Library has announced that the first phase of the development of a statewide library eBook platform (eGO) will begin with Library Connection, Inc. [non-profit cooperative of 30 public and academic libraries which share an integrated library system (CONNECT)-RSB- and the Ferguson Library [in Stamford, CT].

A workshop on libraries and ebooks was held with Skip Dye, VP, Library and Academic Sales, Random House; George Coe, President, Library & Education, Baker - Taylor; Barbara Genco, Manager, Special Projects, Library Journal; Stephanie Anderson, Head of Readers Advisory, Darien Library; and Heather McCormack, Collection Development Manager, 3M Cloud Library.

Blackwell's is one of the premier bookstores in the UK and the company is launching a new digital learning service that has been built for students, academics and professionals to download and annotate eBooks on any device.

Corresponding print and ebook page numbers is also a potentially great advantage for academics and researchers who could more easily cite an edition of a work regardless of whether they found the info in the print or ebook version.

EbscoHost eBooks and audiobooks EbscoHost offers thousands of high quality eBook and audiobook titles from leading publishers including best selling, frontlist, and award - winning titles across a wide range of subject matter - including academic titles, popular fiction and more.

Science and academic books seem to be an appropriate recipient of the features that enhanced ebooks can offer, while fiction fans pointed out that the writing itself should carry the reader into the setting instead of relying on immersive graphics or embedded soundtracks.

«Our long term aim is to help public and academic libraries provide ebooks to their patrons and to make available the widest possible collection of ebooks from all over the world.

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The promises of affordable textbooks that could be updated with the latest information at a moment's notice haven't come through; even the much - touted bells and whistles approach to tablet - based academic ebooks have gone largely stagnant as learning outcomes have not been noticeably improved — at least not according to the almighty standardized tests — with the addition of embedded content.

Not only are academic books priced out of reach for many of the poor students and scholars hungry for their knowledge, but scholars should feel encouraged to release their research (ebooks, e-essays) directly to the world for the simple fact that their work is unique and can not be found anywhere else, albeit perhaps very niche.»

Additionally, the library and academic markets have uniquely stringent DRM requirements for some of our ebook publications.

The list of ebrary titles includes over 750,000 ebooks through Academic Complete as well as content uploaded by member libraries.

The best part of this title, though, is it's only one shining example of how digital reading can be put to use in educational settings, especially for the often forgotten readers that fall in the gaps between the incredible children's ebooks and the higher education academic e-texts.

I'm not seeing much in the line of academic writing getting picked up by the audio ebook format.

Slow to gain ground in the US due to ongoing conflict between the libraries and the publishers over compensation, ebook lending in Europe would be one way for readers to continue consuming high volumes of digital material — academic texts or popular — as a way to avoid the VAT issue.

Patron - driven acquisition (PDA) is one of the most talked - about models for acquiring ebooks in academic libraries.

In order to make a broader - scale transition to academic ebooks, the hurdles of our current attitudes about textbooks in general will have to be overcome.

VitalSource added as a vendor to Scottish academic buying group APUC (14 March 2018) FE News VitalSource can now provide institutions with a single interface for the purchase of individual eBooks and eBook collections.

ebrary is currently working with academic libraries in Germany, but the popularity of ebook lending in the current climate of VAT can easily spark the crossover to public libraries.

To date, the format wars in eBooks have undermined the most important feature of a paper book, the ability to point to a part of the text on a certain page of a specific edition, which is the basis of academic and professional citation, which is the key to dialogue taking place through books.

A consortium of 10 academic libraries in Nova Scotia, Novanet, has negotiated a deal with publishers to allow the sharing of ebooks among libraries as freely as they share print books.

At the recent American Library Association conference in the Anaheim, California, the current state of ebook lending for public and academic libraries was a dark undercurrent throughout the multi-day event.

Please note that a Table of Contents is critical for both eBooks and print editions, since people generally read non-fiction for work - or academic - related reasons rather than casually.

They offer academic ebooks from all the world's leading scholarly and academic book publishers and have over 50,000 titles to choose from in a wide variety of academic disciplines.

LIVE has provided statewide ebook access to North Carolina's public and academic libraries since the early days of NetLibrary.

While there are of course legitimate academic reasons to study the text and regular folks may just be plain curious about the book, reading Mein Kampf isn't exactly the sort of thing people will want to do on the commute to work - which could be exactly why it's proving so popular in ebook format.

Spending appears to have plateaued, with respondents reporting an average of $ 67,400, and a median of $ 16,600 spent on ebooks during the 2011 - 2012 academic year, compared with an average of $ 65,000 and a median of $ 17,500 the year prior.

Has the availability of ebook collections (hereafter referred to as eCollections) enhanced and / or improved collection development practices in academic libraries?

In our analysis of the ebook buying methods in academic libraries, we've examined thus far the unexpected effects of Demand - Driven Acquisitions (DDA), a model that showed promise at its inception but eventually led librarians and publishers to question its long - term sustainability, and we've cleared up some confusion surrounding the Approval Plan and explained why it remains as effective for purchasing digital books as for print.

Academic libraries serving colleges, universities and other institutes of higher learning tend to have a broader definition of ebooks than public libraries, notes the third annual «2012 Survey of Ebook Usage in U.S. Academic Libraries,» sponsored by Ebooks on EBSCebooks than public libraries, notes the third annual «2012 Survey of Ebook Usage in U.S. Academic Libraries,» sponsored by Ebooks on EBSCEbooks on EBSCOhost.

Following 2008, a lot of public and academic library saw budget cuts, further exacerbating the decline of ebook purchases.

Currently, ebooks represent an average of almost 10 percent of academic libraries» acquisitions budget, and respondents expect that share to grow to almost 20 percent by 2017.

In terms of academic content, the CAPES federal organization purchased periodical licences and ebooks worth of US $ 71 million which content is available for university students free of charge.

Four academic librarians at different stages of implementing patron - driven acquisition (PDA) at their institutions share a range of experiences as they tackled issues surrounding PDA and ebook discovery.

Full versions of this report are available for purchase, focused on public, academic, or school libraries and complete with detailed data broken down by size of library and budget, comparison of 2011 and 2010 data, and hundreds of comments from librarians about their experiences with ebooks:

Convenient, comprehensive collections of acclaimed academic eBooks from esteemed Infobase imprints.

I redid the spreadsheet to check — the only noticeable effect was a three - quarter - percent gain in gross $ sales for Small / Medium Publishers... from the non-trade Textbook & Academic segment, mainly, made up of rarely - selling ebooks that cost hundreds of dollars each.

Ian Singer of Media Source quoted adoption rate statistics that ebooks are in over 90 % of academic libraries and over 80 % of public libraries.

How are academic librarians making their patrons aware of ebook options?