niso/bisg 7th annual changing standards landscape forum: ala chicago user practices and needs
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User Practices and Needs
Roger C. Schonfeld
@rschon | [email protected]
NISO/BISG Changing Standards Landscape: E-Books | June 28, 2013
• Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2012• Ithaka S+R | Jisc | RLUK UK Survey of Academics 2012• Ithaka S+R’s Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians (2012)
Sources for Today’s Presentation
Importance of scholarly monographs
“Scholars draw on a variety of different types of scholarly materials in their research. How important to your research is each of the following types of materials?” Percent of respondents who indicated that “monographs or edited volumes” are very important to their research.
“Electronic versions of scholarly monographs play a very important role in my research and teaching.” Percent of respondents agreeing strongly with this statement.
Importance of monographs in research
“Scholars draw on a variety of different types of scholarly materials in their research. How important to your research is each of the following types of materials?” Percent indicating that “monographs or edited volumes” are very important to their research.
Humanities Social Sciences Sciences0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Source: Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2012
Importance of monographs: generally and in electronic form
Humanities Social Sciences Sciences0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Monographs or edited volumes Electronic versions of scholarly monographs
Source: Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2012
Importance of e-books for research & teaching
“Electronic versions of scholarly monographs play a very important role in my research and teaching.”
Humanities Social Sciences Sciences0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
USUK
Sources: Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2012; Ithaka S+R | Jisc | RLUK UK Survey of Academics 2012
A print to electronic transition for monographs?
“You may have had the opportunity to read scholarly monographs in electronic format, either through a library subscription database or standalone e-books. How often have you used scholarly monographs in digital form in the past six months – often, occasionally, rarely, or never?”
How often have you used scholarly monographs in digital form? (US)
Source: Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2012
How often do you use scholarly monographs in digital form?
Humanities Social Sciences Sciences0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
USUK
Sources: Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2012; Ithaka S+R | Jisc | RLUK UK Survey of Academics 2012
Percent responding often or occasionally (US vs. UK)
A print to electronic transition for monographs?
“Within the next five years, the use of e-books will be so prevalent among faculty and students that it will not be necessary to maintain library collections of hard-copy books.”
A print to electronic transition for monographs?
2006 3.7%
2009 4.4%
2012 16.1%
Over time (US):
“Within the next five years, the use of e-books will be so prevalent among faculty and students that it will not be necessary to maintain library collections of hard-copy books.”
Source: Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2012
A print to electronic transition for monographs?
Humanities Social Sciences Sciences0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
US UK
“Within the next five years, the use of e-books will be so prevalent among faculty and students that it will not be necessary to maintain library collections of hard-copy books.”
Sources: Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2012; Ithaka S+R | Jisc | RLUK UK Survey of Academics 2012
Use-cases
“Below is a list of ways you may use a scholarly monograph. Please think about doing each of these things with a scholarly monograph in print format or in digital format and… indicate how much easier or harder it is to perform each activity in print or digital format.”
• Reading cover to cover in depth• Reading a section in depth• Comparing treatment of ideas between monographs• Skimming in whole or in part• Exploring references• Searching for a particular topic
Reading cover to cover
Reading a section
Comparing monographs
Skimming
Exploring references
Searching for a topic
Monograph use cases (US)
Source: Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2012
“Google is the first port of call.”
Google Books is of singular importance for historians, used on its own, in conjunction with the library, and even with their own texts.
“Even some pretty obscure things have landed in there ...
Because if…they are public domain, … I can just
download them and use them at my leisure… Being able to do keyword searches within PDFs of books is awesome…
[M]ore of that please!”
Source: Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians
Thank you
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