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End-User Acceptance of Electronic Journals
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The results of a survey of Texas A&M faculty indicate that faculty are cautiously optimistic about e-journals but unwilling to forego print journals as discussed by the authors, despite the benefits of e-journal format choices.Abstract:
This article reports the results of a survey of Texas AM the reasons faculty were or were not using e-journals; and faculty concerns about e-journals. Faculty were also asked about other journal format choices for library collections and individual subscriptions. The findings suggest Texas A&M faculty are cautiously optimistic about electronic journals but unwilling to forego print journals.read more
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User Acceptance of Electronic Journals: Interviews with Chemists at Cornell University
TL;DR: Interview data from chemists who have used an experimental electronic journal system is presented and the potential of electronic journals for accomplishing traditional scholarly tasks and the characteristics of an ideal electronic system and its effects on user productivity are explored.
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Accessing Electronic Journals and Other E-Publications: An Empirical Study
Stephen P. Harter,Hak Joon Kim +1 more
TL;DR: The findings illustrate the practical problems that can arise when users attempt to retrieve the texts of electronic publications, and reveal relatively poor accessibility and usability of the e-journals studied.
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University faculty and networked information: results of a survey
TL;DR: In this paper, a questionnaire was mailed in the fall of 1995 to all faculty in 6 different departments at 8 universities across the country, and questions dealt with accessibility to networks, submission and/or subscription to electronic journals, use of networks for other purposes (such as access to data sets or searching library catalogs), and effects of networked information on collaboration.
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