Full Text of ebrary's Report on Offline and Mobile Access to eBooks Now Available, Registration No Longer Required to Access

Title: ebrary’s Download Survey (17 pages; PDF)
by: Allen M. McKiel, Ph.D., Dean of Library Services, Western Oregon University.
Beginning today, the report is available direct from ebrary, no registration required.
Previously, you were required to complete an online registration form. We first posted about the report at the end of October and shared a few key findings:

The growing demand for downloading has been substantiated by a recent ebrary survey of more than 1,000 librarians, which indicated 92% found providing offline access to e-books more or equally important than providing online access.
“The ability to keep pace with the ever-evolving ways that patrons expect to find and use authoritative information is clearly important to the library and publishing community,” said Dr. Allen McKiel, Dean of Library Services at Western Oregon University.
Additional key findings from ebrary’s Download Survey of librarians include the following:

• 32% responded that their libraries currently provide offline reading options
• 19% stated that their libraries provided tethered access (not downloaded) to mobile devices
• 95% did not think that tethered mobile access obviated the need for offline mobile access

Searching within a title, selecting page font, and navigating the table of content ranked the highest for desired functionality for offline mobile access.

Direct to Full Text: ebrary’s Download Survey (17 pages; PDF)

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