E-books and research technology provider ebrary, US, a ProQuest business, has announced that the social media data of its 2011 Global Student E-book Survey is now publicly available at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/surveys along with the full report.
According to the report while 41 percent of students are currently using social media for research or study, 59 percent are not. Reasons for not using social media include that existing sites are not a reliable source of information. When asked if they would use social media to share research with peers, 58 percent of students indicated ‘likely’ to ‘very likely,’ while 43 percent stated ‘unlikely.’ While 35 percent students indicated they would ‘likely’ to ‘very likely’ pose a question to a librarian using social media, compared to 45 percent who would ‘likely’ to ‘very likely’ use social media to pose a question to faculty. When asked if they would use social media to connect with students with similar academic interests, 69 percent stated ‘likely’ to ‘very likely,’ while 31 percent stated ‘unlikely.’
More than 6,500 students worldwide participated in ebrary’s 2011 Global Student E-book Survey, which was very similar to a 2008 survey created by librarians. As part of the latest survey, ebrary added questions pertaining to social media, which has grown and changed significantly over the past three years. ebrary welcomes discussion and papers around any of its e-book surveys.
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