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Are E-Book Big Deal Bundles Still Valuable?
The academic e‐book market has undergone significant change in the last five years. E‐book availability has greatly increased as library demand has grown, with an increasing percentage of library acquisitions preferring ... -
Minding Your Ps & Qs: A Q-Methodology Workshop
Librarians are continually turning to new metrics to evaluate services, impact, and priorities. Q-methodology - a hybrid of qualitative and quantitative research techniques - is a systematic study of subjectivity that ... -
Book Lovers, Technophiles, Printers and Pragmatists: The Social and Demographic Structure of User Attitudes toward e-Books
(2012-09)Q-methodology was used to identify clusters of opinions about e-books at Miami University. The research identified four distinct opinion types among those investigated: Book Lovers, Technophiles, Pragmatists, and ... -
Are E-book Big Deal Bundles Still Valuable? [slide deck]
(2014-11-18)The academic e-book market has undergone significant change in the last five years. E-book availability has greatly increased as library demand has grown, with an increasing percentage of library acquisitions preferring ... -
The Value of Purchasing E-Books From a Large Publisher (Springer E-Books)
(2014-05-13)Presentation given at the Charleston Conference on November 3, 2011. Usage analysis of Springer e-books at Miami University Libraries. -
The Value of Purchasing E-Books From a Large Publisher: A Usage-based Analysis of Oxford University Press E-Books
(2014-05-13)Presentation given at the Acquisitions Institute (Timberline) on May 20, 2012. Usage analysis of Oxford University Press e-books at Miami University Libraries. -
Seeing the Forest by Counting the Trees
(2014-03-26)Libraries, particularly academic libraries, are swimming in a sea of data. Librarians often contribute to this by counting every possible patron interaction in an attempt to both define their current situation and to predict ... -
Seeing the Forest by Counting the Trees [slide deck]
(2014-03-26)Libraries, particularly academic libraries, are swimming in a sea of data. Librarians often contribute to this by counting every possible patron interaction in an attempt to both define their current situation and to predict ... -
11 digital publishing trends to watch this year and their potential impact on libraries
(2014-02-04)Presented at Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) National Forum, Columbus, OH. -
The Value of Purchasing E-book Collections from a Large Publisher
(2013-06-04)The academic e-book market is in the midst of rapid change and development. While e-books are still a relatively small percentage of library collections, sales are growing and libraries appear ready to ramp up their e-book ... -
Keep the Change: Clusters of Faculty Opinion on Open Access
(2013-04-08)The authors discovered faculty opinions about open access by employing Q methodology, a research method combining qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze subjects' attitudes about a given topic. Q methodology, using ... -
Contradictions and Consensus: Clusters of Opinions on E-books
(2012-09-12)Q methodology was used to determine attitudes and opinions about e-books among a group of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates at Miami University of Ohio. Oral interviews formed the basis for a collection of ...
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