Purpose – This study aims to explore the current presence of e-books in the collections of Spanish academic libraries, from the viewpoint of the contents on offer. Design/methodology/approach – Exploration of the library web sites was undertaken in order to gauge the level of presence of packages that distribute electronic books. In evaluating the extent of content available, the data recorded ...

The TRIAL SOLUTION EU project focused on the publication of personalized electronic documents based on existing scientific books. Its general approach consists in slicing electronic books into elementary learning resources and annotating them with metadata enabling the retrieval of resources by a semantic search. The annotated resources are published into a repository available for teachers or ...

Defining the stages which the reader follows when reading e-resources is one of several factors which can provide significant insights into actual reading behaviours and cognitive processes of readers. Two different samples of students who study in Libyan primary schools, aged 9 to 12, were selected to investigate how students use and interact with both print and digital school books, identify ...

In recent years recommender systems (RSs) has gained popularity to solve the problem of web information overload and redundancy. Recommendation system helps users in finding the contents of their interest with minimum efforts. Even though most of the systems use explicit rating to recommend the content of users interest. When reading the electronic books performance of user gets affected becaus...

defining the stages for the reader to follow when reading e-resources is only one of several factors which can provide a significant understanding of the actual reading behaviour and cognitive process of reading. This article aims to compare reading processes that students follow when reading school books in two different media (paper and electronic). A sample of 80 students, studying in Libyan...