Preferred book formats in an academic medical center.

Learning more about when and why medical students, faculty, and clinical staff use e-books, as opposed to print books, is an expanding area of research for health sciences librarians. Several studies have highlighted the heavy use of health sciences titles in campus e-book collections [1–5] and the book format preferences of medical and other health sciences students [2, 6, 7]. A recent case study by Shurtz and von Isenburg is one of the first to explore e-book use in both health sciences educational and clinical settings [8].