Re-inventing the e-book: how tablets increased e-book take-up at Bern University

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Gerhard Bissels
Universitätsbibliothek, Universität Bern, Fachbereichsbibliothek Bühlplatz, Baltzerstrasse 4, 3012 Bern 8, Switzerland.

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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.

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Bissels G. Re-inventing the e-book: how tablets increased e-book take-up at Bern University. J Eur Assoc Health Info Libr [Internet]. 2016 Mar. 8 [cited 2024 Jul. 3];11(2). Available from: https://ojs.eahil.eu/JEAHIL/article/view/40
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