TY - GEN
T1 - Usage of E-books During the COVID-19 Pandemic
T2 - 16th International Conference on Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue, iConference 2021
AU - Kodama, Mei
AU - Ishita, Emi
AU - Watanabe, Yukiko
AU - Tomiura, Yoichi
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. We would like to thank Kyushu University Library for providing usage data. This work was supported by JST AIP Grant Number JPMJCR19U1, Japan.
Funding Information:
We would like to thank Kyushu University Library for providing usage data. This work was supported by JST AIP Grant Number JPMJCR19U1, Japan.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on education and research in universities throughout the world. Many academic libraries have been closed, and users have had to use e-books instead of printed books in libraries. As e-books are not yet commonly used in Japan, this paper examines the impact of the pandemic on the use of e-books in academic libraries in Japan. As a case study, the usage data for each e-book platform in Kyushu University in Japan were analyzed, and the overall trends in each period before and during the pandemic were revealed. The access counts of e-books from January to June 2019 and those for 2020 were examined. The number of total access counts in 2020 was higher than that in 2019 on all nine platforms. The platform that saw the highest access count growth rate was JSTOR, with an 846% increase. The usage of e-books in the Maruzen eBook Library, which holds many Japanese textbooks, was examined in detail. E-books on mathematics, medical science, and programming languages were in constant use both before and during the pandemic. E-books in law and economics started to be used during the pandemic. These results indicate that the pandemic has evoked new needs for e-books in certain fields.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on education and research in universities throughout the world. Many academic libraries have been closed, and users have had to use e-books instead of printed books in libraries. As e-books are not yet commonly used in Japan, this paper examines the impact of the pandemic on the use of e-books in academic libraries in Japan. As a case study, the usage data for each e-book platform in Kyushu University in Japan were analyzed, and the overall trends in each period before and during the pandemic were revealed. The access counts of e-books from January to June 2019 and those for 2020 were examined. The number of total access counts in 2020 was higher than that in 2019 on all nine platforms. The platform that saw the highest access count growth rate was JSTOR, with an 846% increase. The usage of e-books in the Maruzen eBook Library, which holds many Japanese textbooks, was examined in detail. E-books on mathematics, medical science, and programming languages were in constant use both before and during the pandemic. E-books in law and economics started to be used during the pandemic. These results indicate that the pandemic has evoked new needs for e-books in certain fields.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-71305-8_40
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-71305-8_40
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85104860620
SN - 9783030713041
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 475
EP - 483
BT - Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue - 16th International Conference, iConference 2021, Proceedings
A2 - Toeppe, Katharina
A2 - Yan, Hui
A2 - Chu, Samuel Kai
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 17 March 2021 through 31 March 2021
ER -