TY - JOUR AU - Gerhard Bissels PY - 2016/03/08 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Re-inventing the e-book: how tablets increased e-book take-up at Bern University JF - Journal of EAHIL JA - JEAHIL VL - 11 IS - 2 SE - Feature Articles DO - UR - http://ojs.eahil.eu/ojs/index.php/JEAHIL/article/view/40 AB - This paper reports how at Bern University the medical library services successfully used the tablet platform to significantly improve students’ acceptance of e-books and other e-resources.Although Bern University had closed its main medical library with the loss of its print monograph collection, students until recently rejected e-books as too inconvenient for intense revision. Only when over the last two years tablets became part of students’ basic toolkit, and the library selected e-books, apps, interface and ancillary software to work with tablets, e-books became more palatable to readers. ER -