e-Books provide 'safety valve' for librarians

For a year, 26 e-course texts across four subject areas (Medicine, Business, Engineering and Media Studies) were made available to 127 UK universities who took part in a National e-books observatory project funded by Jisc and carried out by Jisc Collections. The largest study of its kind, it has seen the behaviours of over 50,000 participants and observed to see how they use a selection of academic electronic textbooks.In this podcast Rebecca O'Brien is joined by Caren Milloy, the project’s manager at Jisc Collections, and her co-author of the National e-books Observatory Project report, Ian Rowlands from CIBER who carried out the study.