An exploration of ebook selection behavior in academic library collections

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This is an author’s accepted version of an article published in Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. © 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

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Academic libraries have offered ebooks for some time, however little is known about how readers interact with them while making relevance decisions. In this paper we seek to address that gap by analyzing ebook transaction logs for books in a university library.

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McKay, D., Hinze, A., Heese, R., Vanderschantz, N., Timpany, C. & Cunningham, S.J. (2012). An exploration of ebook selection behavior in academic library collections. In 2nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2012, Paphos, September 23-27 2012, (pp. 13-24). Paphos, Cyprus.

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