The evolution of electronic reference sources

Epps, Amy S. Van

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“…Then, in a later study, Slater (2009) demonstrated higher e-book usage for those titles offering quick reference information. The speed at which students and researchers alike are able to find relevant information has been cited as a principal reason for their repeated usage of e-resources (van Epps, 2005;Hughes & Buchanan, 2001;Sewell & Teitelbaum, 1986).…”

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Comparing Usage Patterns Recorded between an Electronic Reference and an Electronic Monograph Collection: The Differences in Searches and Full-Text Content Viewings

Lamothe¹

2012

Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship

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This paper presents the results from a quantitative and systematic analysis comparing the online usage of an e-reference and an e-monograph collection. A very strong relationship exists between size and usage: the larger the collection, the greater the usage. An equally strong relationship exists between searches and viewings, meaning that the more there are searches performed, the more will full-text content be viewed. The smaller e-reference collection has also seen significantly greater use proportional to its size compared to the much larger e-monograph collection. E-monographs have not seen significant usage until after the addition of very large academic e-book packages.

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Comparing Usage Patterns Recorded between an Electronic Reference and an Electronic Monograph Collection: The Differences in Searches and Full-Text Content Viewings

Lamothe¹

2012

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“…Large unwieldy multivolume print reference sources become increasingly usable and userfriendly in electronic form (Culp, 2002). With e-reference, researchers are provided with a simple and quick access to the information they need from their computer or mobile devices (Van Epps, 2005).…”

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Comparing usage between dynamic and static e-reference collections

Lamothe

2015

Collection Building

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2015),"Serials use in post graduates' dissertations of pharmaceutical sciences: collection building by citation analysis", Collection Building, Vol. 34 Iss 3 pp. 94-101 http://dx.(2015),"A collection explosion: finding our collection roots and examining how we got from there to here", Collection Building, Vol. 34 Iss 4 pp. 136-143 http://dx.Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by emerald-srm:226685 [] For AuthorsIf you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this article was to present the results of a quantitative analysis that compared usage levels between an e-reference collection that has experienced continual updated content and growth and an e-reference collection that has not experienced any recent changes. The aim of the study was to determine quantitatively if e-reference collections with dynamic content experience greater levels of usage compared to e-reference collections that are static in both size and content. Design/methodology/approach -E-reference data were separated into a dynamic collection and a static collection. Usage for e-reference belonging to the dynamic collection was compared to usage of e-reference belonging to the static collection. The number of e-reference was obtained by simple count. Additional statistics tracked include the number of viewings. A linear regression analysis was used to determine the strength of the linear relationship between collection size and usage. Findings -Results indicate that e-reference collections that continue to grow in both size and content also continue to experience year-to-year increases in usage. E-reference collections that remain static in size and content experienced a decline in usage. A linear regression analysis indicates the existence of an extremely strong linear relationship between dynamic content and usage. A weaker linear relationship was calculated for static content. Originality/value -To this author's knowledge, this research is the first to systematically and quantitatively compare usage levels between e-reference titles from growing collections to collections that have not had any new titles added recently.

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Use of e‐services by faculty members of business schools in a state of India: a study

Swain

Panda²

2009

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to assess and evaluate quantitative and qualitative use of electronic resources in the academic ambience of business schools in Orissa (India) with a view to examining the level of electronic information services (EIS) offered to the faculty members of the state with an opinion pool of the faculty members of the respective business schools. Moreover, the study aims to highlight some of the problems and constraints faced by the target users with some constructive suggestions and recommendations for the improvement of the status of electronic information services in the business schools of the state in days to come. Design/methodology/approach -The paper investigates the use of e-resources by the faculty members of business schools of the state through a survey based on responses of the target users from structured questionnaires. The SPSS package is used for data analysis. Findings -Faculty members pay high preference to the use of e-articles while the least preference goes towards the use of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Further it is found that a selected few online databases like Emerald Management Xtra (EMX), EBSCO, and PROQUEST are fairly in use while the use of other online databases is not up to expectations. In tandem, the majority of faculty members are in favor of commercial e-services. Practical implications -The paper restricts the study exclusively to e-resources as the type of material and faculty members of major business schools of Orissa (India) as the respondents in its scope of discussion. Originality/value -The study focuses on the use of e-resources by faculty members in business schools of Orissa with some constructive outcomes for effective generalization.

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The evolution of electronic reference sources

Cited by 10 publications

References 12 publications

Comparing Usage Patterns Recorded between an Electronic Reference and an Electronic Monograph Collection: The Differences in Searches and Full-Text Content Viewings

Comparing Usage Patterns Recorded between an Electronic Reference and an Electronic Monograph Collection: The Differences in Searches and Full-Text Content Viewings

Comparing usage between dynamic and static e-reference collections

Use of e‐services by faculty members of business schools in a state of India: a study

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