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If We Build It, Will They Come? Electronic Journals Acceptance and Usage Patterns

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Serotkin, Patricia B.; Fitzgerald, Patricia I.; Balough, Sandra A. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2005

A focus group study conducted with health sciences students enrolled in graduate-level research classes at a small private comprehensive university revealed that these students preferred e-journals to print but that accessibility issues deterred their use. These findings provided valuable insights for local collection development decision-making…

Descriptors: Focus Groups, Academic Libraries, Electronic Journals, Information Literacy