{"id":5990,"date":"2011-01-15T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=5990"},"modified":"2011-01-15T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T16:17:00","slug":"decline-in-borrowing-of-humanities-monographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2011\/01\/15\/decline-in-borrowing-of-humanities-monographs\/","title":{"rendered":"Decline in borrowing of humanities monographs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eprints.rclis.org\/bitstream\/10760\/15247\/1\/humanities_circulation_longitudinal_report.pdf\">Are Students in the Humanities Making Less Use of Printed Books? A Longitudinal Study at the University of Queensland Library<\/a> (January 2011)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The rapid growth of electronic journals (and especially of resources such as JSTOR) has provided a convenient alternative to the monograph, and one that is accessible from any computer&#8221; &#8230; &#8220;students are using them heavily, and we suspect that this has a lot to do with their accessibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we suspect that one factor in the decline in borrowing of humanities monographs is the inconvenience of the print format for today&#8217;s students, we should do everything that we can to increase our holdings of e-books in the humanities, as more such works become available.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The other possibility, for popular books required for a course, is that the nerdy students already have them in pirated ebook format, which would account for a marginal drop in print access. Perhaps the Web-savvy ones are also viewing enough pages on Google Books \/ Amazon Look Inside to satisfy their needs.  Yet I wouldn&#8217;t rule out on-demand piracy in future &mdash; with the advent of things like <a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2011\/01\/14\/ion-book-saver\/\">the Ion Book Saver<\/a>, will the class nerd simply convert an essay-required book in 15 minutes and email it to the rest of the class?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are Students in the Humanities Making Less Use of Printed Books? A Longitudinal Study at the University of Queensland Library &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2011\/01\/15\/decline-in-borrowing-of-humanities-monographs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}