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T1 E-books in Spanish university libraries: An analysis of online social sciences degrees
A1 Arroyo Vázquez, Natalia
A1 Alvite Díez, María Luisa
A1 Cos González-Taladriz, Lucía de
A1 Rodríguez Bravo, Blanca
A2 Biblioteconomia y Documentacion
K1 Biblioteconomía
K1 Acquisitions
K1 Collection management
K1 Digital collections
K1 E-books
K1 Monographs
K1 Online degrees
K1 Recommended bibliography
K1 Syllabi
K1 University libraries
K1 Spanish universities
K1 Social sciences' degrees
K1 Biblioteca universitaria
AB [EN] This paper analyzes the availability, via both library lending licenses and open access, of digital versions of the monographs that professors recommend in online bachelor's degrees courses in social sciences at Spanish public universities. Monographs are the type of document most recommended by professors when it comes to teaching and learning in higher education. Digital format is most suitable for online degrees, considering the added effort entailed for libraries to get these documents owing to the geographic dispersion of the students. For this purpose, all the resources in the recommended reading section of the syllabi from a sample of online degree programs in social sciences for the 2022–2023 academic year were extracted. Then, the catalogs of the corresponding university libraries were consulted to check the availability of the monographs on the reading lists. In addition, the catalogs of the usual suppliers to Spanish university libraries were consulted to check the availability of lending licenses for libraries. Finally, types of digital lending platforms are analyzed. Monographs account for 85.6 % of the documents referenced in courses' recommended reading lists. Only 21.0 % of monographs are available in digital format, either through library lending (17.4 %) or open access (4.9 %). On the contrary, practically the entirety of reading lists is available for lending through university libraries in printed format. University libraries could make the effort to acquire even more digital lending licenses for a portion of the books recommended by professors, but in this way they could only obtain 40.9 % of the monographs in digital format. Therefore, the publishing industry is not currently meeting the needs of online university education in the social sciences, owing to a large part of its catalog – especially older works – not being offered in digital format as well as the lack of library lending licenses.
PB ScienceDirect
SN 1879-1999
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10612/17718
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10612/17718
NO Arroyo-Vázquez, N., Alvite-Díez, M.-L., Rodríguez-Bravo, B., & Lucía de Cos González-Taladriz. (2023). E-books in Spanish university libraries: An analysis of online social sciences degrees. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 49(6), 102809. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ACALIB.2023.102809
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 16-may-2024