The core mission of university libraries is to provide access to books, journals, data and primary sources to enhance and enable research and education. Because students are accustomed to gathering information using commercial search engines, they can overlook high-quality library resources. To connect with student researchers when they need library...
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SOURCE SOFTWARE FOR
LIBRARY RESEARCH GUIDES
EvvivaWeinraubLajoie
and Margaret Mellinger
The core mission of university libraries is to provide access to books, journals, data and primary sources to enhance and enable research and education. Because students are accustomed to gathering information using commercial search engines, they can overlook high-quality library resources. To connect with student researchers when they need library...
Full Text:
LIBRARY RESEARCH GUIDES
EvvivaWeinraubLajoie
and Margaret Mellinger
Oregon State University Libraries
The core mission of university libraries is to provide access to books, journals, data and primary sources to enhance and enable research and education. Because students are accustomed to gathering information using commercial search engines, they can overlook high-quality library resources. To connect with student researchers when they need library...
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RESEARCH GUIDES
Evviva Weinraub1, Margaret Mellinger2
1Oregon State University Libraries (USA
The core mission of university libraries is to provide access to books, journals, data and primary sources to enhance and enable research and education. Because students are accustomed to gathering information using commercial search engines, they can overlook high-quality library resources. To connect with student researchers when they need library...
This paper was submitted and accepted for presentation at INTED2012 (6th International Technology, Education and Development Conference) held March 5-7 in Valencia, Spain.
In August 2011, a cohort of 30 Oregon State University Libraries and Press librarians and staff received free e-readers (Kindle Keyboards, Nook Simple Touches, Kobo Touches, and Sony PRS-350 Reader Pocket Editions) to use and adopt as they wished. In return, they were asked to participate in a year-long study...
Books and journal articles are the most familiar forms of disseminating scholarly research, however, the move from "ink-on-paper" to a digital format presents small presses with difficulties. E-books, e-readers and digital publishing demand that presses transform their publishing model and rethink their business practices. Challenges are wide ranging and numerous;...
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-readers
Jane Nichols and EvvivaWeinraub, Oregon State University Libraries & Press
XXXII Charleston
Books and journal articles are the most familiar forms of disseminating scholarly research, however, the move from "ink-on-paper" to a digital format presents small presses with difficulties. E-books, e-readers and digital publishing demand that presses transform their publishing model and rethink their business practices. Challenges are wide ranging and numerous;...
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Adoption of E-readers
Jane Nichols and EvvivaWeinraub, Oregon State University Libraries
