Information for faculty

As a busy university teacher, you will be aware of the problems that university libraries sometimes have in making sure that there are enough copies of popular course texts to go around, especially at times of peak demand.

One of the key aims of our project, funded by JISC, is to explore whether electronic course texts might offer a solution to these bottlenecks. In other words, whether offering students access to selected textbooks from the library website as electronic documents, might be a way to improve that all-important student experience.

You can help us by letting us know what you think about e-books by joining our survey. It should take no longer than 10-12 minutes to complete (much less if you don't already use e-books - but we would still LOVE to hear from you).

You can enter the survey by clicking here. If you leave your university email at the end of the survey, you will be entered into our prize draw for £200 worth of Amazon vouchers.

You are under no obligation whatsoever to take part in this survey. Any information you give us will be held securely and we will under no circumstances reveal any findings other than at a highly aggregated level. We are collecting the data through a third-party, Survey Monkey, and you can check their privacy policy here.

Initial findings from this important survey will be published on this mini-site in late March.

If you have any problems or questions, please contact me at i.rowlands@ucl.ac.uk


Dr Ian Rowlands






Updated 15 January 2009.