Purpose – This study, a part of JISC-funded UK National E-Books Observatory, aims to find out about the perspective of students and academics, the main e-book users, on e-books. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides an analysis of two open-ended questions about e-books, contained in a UK national survey conducted between 18 January and 1 March 2008. The survey obtained a response fro...

A SPATE of textbooks on general practice have recently appeared and have outlined the content and the role of the general practitioner. The terms 'general practitioner' and 'family doctor' are used synonymously, yet this book undoubtedly suggests that the study of family structure and dynamics, and the impact of illness upon the family, adds a new dimension to general practice and justifies the...

background: knowledge production and evaluation are two important functions of health research system (hrs). in this article, we aimed to reveal the correlation between evaluation of health research organizations and health knowledge production promotion. methods: a comprehensive evaluation system was developed to evaluate the academic performance of national medical science universities on an ...

among the linguistic resources for creating grammatical metaphor, nominalization rewords   processes and properties metaphorically as nouns within the experiential metafunction of language. following halliday's (1998a) classification of grammatical metaphor, the current study investigated nominalization exploited in an english applied linguistics textbook and its corresponding persian translati...

As the discipline of Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS) has continued to expand rapidly over the past twenty years, scientometric research has been increasingly applied to analyze its trends and patterns. Drawing inspiration from Social Network Analysis, this study aims to quantify academic research impact and identify patterns of influence at an institutional and regional level in Chin...

Previous studies on game-based learning have proposed many factors that make video games good learning tools. This study uses content analysis to assess whether these theories are applied to the designs of web-based games for learning. The samples for this study are 90 pro-environmental video games randomly sample from the internet. Results from this study showed that despite the assumptions th...

This study aimed to investigate whether there is any significant relationship between the readability and vocabulary profile including the most frequent words (K1 words) and academic word list (AWL) of reading passages of Four Corners series which were EFL textbooks. To determine the readability of the texts, the Flesch–Kincaid (1975) readability test was used, while the texts' academic word li...

pupose: to use non-text books in the programmed educational systems is important to deep and stabilized the content of the textbooks in students. therefore, it is essential to identify books that have the characteristics of a suitable book. the main purpose of this study is to provide a list of suitable non-textbooks compatible with the content of the primary school social science and science t...

Purpose – As a response to the claims that much of management academic research is irrelevant from the practitioner perspective, this study aims to empirically investigate whether books serve as effective knowledge distribution agents and whether peer-reviewed publications are used in the development of book content. Design/methodology/approach – A citation analysis of 40 authored and nine edit...

Introduction This paper, based on three recent research projects, addresses some of the issues that are central to the acceptance and integration of electronic scholarly monographs and textbooks (henceforth referred to as e-monographs) into the academic library. The findings suggest that the almost casual use of terms like 'digital library' and 'hybrid library' belies the reality of a slow acce...