E-book consumers choosing tablets over e-readers, says BISG Study - May 1, 2012
E-book consumers’ preference for tablets is accelerating rapidly as dedicated e-readers drop in popularity, according to the Book Industry Study Group’s (BISG) Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading survey. The second installment in Volume Three of the study shows that, over the course of just six months,… Read More
A-levels not equipping students with appropriate mathematical skills, says SCORE report - April 30, 2012
The UK's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) hosted an event at the Chemistry Centre in London last week, at which the science-alliance SCORE launched a report on A levels and science. RSC is a SCORE partner. New evidence shows that A-levels in a range of… Read More
OCLC releases executive summary on Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums - April 24, 2012
Library information provider OCLC Research, US, has released the third report that completes the Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums report series. The executive summary is said to provide a high-level overview of all three reports. In the first report, the 21-member Social Metadata… Read More
College faculty prefer print textbooks to digital version, says BISG study - April 18, 2012
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) recently conducted the 'Faculty Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education', a survey of college faculty perceptions toward classroom materials. The survey found that professors continue to equate their own and their students' successes in the classroom to the use of… Read More
Simba Information releases fourth edition of Trade E-Book Publishing report series - April 12, 2012
Publishing forecast firm Simba Information, US, has released the fourth edition of its flagship Trade E-Book Publishing report series. According to the report, 17 percent of US adults have read at least one e-book in 2011, up from the 11 percent who did so in 2010.… Read More
JISC infoNet research reveals cost borne by universities for FOI requests - April 12, 2012
JISC infoNet, UK, has conducted research that reveals the true cost to a university of processing a freedom of information (FOI) request. The research shows that in the seven institutions surveyed, a FOI request takes a university an average of 5 hours 2 minutes to respond,… Read More
Worldwide media tablets sales to reach 119 million units in 2012, says Gartner report - April 11, 2012
Technology research firm Gartner, Inc., US, has released a report, according to which, worldwide media tablet sales to end users are forecast to total 118.9 million units in 2012. This is a 98 percent increase from 2011 sales of 60 million units. Gartner's detailed market… Read More
Free access to information in jeopardy, says State of America’s Library Report - April 9, 2012
Publishers limiting library e-book lending, budget cuts and book challenges are just a few library trends of the past year that are placing free access to information in jeopardy. These trends as well as other are detailed in the 2012 State of America's Libraries Report recently released by the
JISC invites humanities and social science researchers to participate in online survey - April 2, 2012
The UK’s JISC is inviting humanities and social science researchers to participate in an online survey (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/oapenukresearcher) to help JISC Collections understand the future of the monograph. In an open access model the monograph is made freely available, but the process… Read More
Brazil and India set for greatest growth in e-book purchase, says Bowker research - March 28, 2012
Australia, India, the UK and the US are leading the world in e-book adoption rates, according to Bowker Market Research's Global eBook Monitor. The study tracks consumer attitudes to, and purchasing of, e-books in major world markets. Bowker Market Research is a service of Bowker, an… Read More
