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BioOne (www.bioone.org) is an electronic aggregator of bioscience research content, and the online home to over 160 journals and books published by not-for-profit societies, associations, museums, institutions, and presses. Usage of BioOne content is strictly limited to personal, educational, and non-commercial use. Commercial inquiries or rights and permissions requests should be directed to t...

Based on the Nursing Learning Support System, which was developed and tested by our university, this study developed the “Digital Nursing Dictionary (ver. 2),” a terminal tablet with a new function of an electronic books, by taking advantage of the developed ICT. This paper describes an interim report of the results of those assessments.

BACKGROUND Children's books have the potential to facilitate communication about death for children living with a serious illness and for children coping with the death of a loved one. OBJECTIVES This study examines the content of children's literature relevant to the topic of dying and death and identifies books providers can share with children and their families. DESIGN A search of child...

This study aims to gain a better understanding of communication patterns in different publication types and the applicability of the Book Citation Index (BKCI) for building indicators for use in both informetrics studies and research evaluation. The authors investigate the differences not only in citation impact between journal and book literature, but also in citation patterns between edited b...

Since 2005, the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Dentistry has required the VitalSource Technologies, Inc. Bookshelf as the textbook program for all dental students. In a 2008 survey, four classes of dental students expressed dissatisfaction with most features of the bookshelf. With the expectation that incoming students would be more accustomed and amenable to digita...

This article reports on a large-scale survey of nearly two thousand faculty and students at one institution, University College London, and profiles their use and perceptions of ebooks. The context for the study is an action research project, CIBER’s SuperBook, that will further investigate the issues raised in this initial benchmarking survey using deep log analysis and qualitative methods. Th...

405 Perspectives concerning the makeup of the core mission of academic libraries and the relative balance between its two major components – physical and virtual resources, vary widely leading to false expectations and unnecessary apprehensiveness. One false expectation is the assumption by some that books are headed rapidly to the junk heap of history. Anthony Grafton (Daedalus, Winter 2009) p...

Even while printed books and electronic frequently contain the same material, they differ greatly from one another each format has its own benefits drawbacks. This study's purpose is to acquire a thorough grasp of opinions preferences lecturers in employing book formats for science teaching. The findings study would assist other thinking through selecting implementation strategies those two typ...