An Exploration of ebook Selection Behavior in Academic Library Collections
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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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