No Shelf Required

A moderated discussion of the issues surrounding eBooks, for librarians and publishers.

Articles

Off The Shelf Column in Booklist

encyclopedia.com, September 15, 2009

Reference Universe, June 1, 2009

E-book Usage Data, April, 2009 and E-Book Usage Data Comparative Chart

Patron Driven Acquisition, January, 2009

Ebook Distributors for the Public and School Library Markets, November, 2008

The Future of Electronic Reference Publishing, Part II, Booklist Online

The Future of Electronic Reference Publishing, A View From the Top, June, 2008

Ebook Aggregators, May, 2008

Is Print Reference Dead?, January, 2008

Other Booklist articles:

 The New NetLibrary, November 1, 2008

“Options for the Ereference Collection” 2007 - review of Sage, updates of ABC-CLIO, Credo, Greenwood, GVRL, and Oxford

“Options for the Ereference Collection” 2006 - reviews of ABC-CLIO, Greenwood, GVRL, Oxford, and XRefer (now Credo)

Recent eBook articles:

See the NSR delicious links for recent articles on our home page.

Selected Reference Works, 2007-08. Sarah Witte and Mary Cargill. Featured in C&RL, Sept. 08. This article compares/contrasts Credo, Gale, Oxford, Blackwell, and Cambridge ebook products.

 E-Books in Higher Education: Nearing the End of the Era of Hype?

Springer eBook white papers

eBooks - Costs and Benefits to Academic and Research Libraries

eBooks - The End User Perspective

ebrary ebook survey results

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student

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  • 1 Tim Kambitsch // Nov 13, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    I am glad to see No Shelf Required receive promotion on American Libraries Direct 11/12/2008.

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