@inproceedings{7aa1b3d4cf614641a75d1098258be294,
title = "The academic reading format international study (ARFIS): Investigating students around the world",
abstract = "This paper presents results from the Academic Reading Format International Study (ARFIS), the largest investigation of university students{\textquoteright} behaviors and attitudes towards reading their academic texts on electronic screens and print. These questions are examined: {\textquoteleft}When engaging with their academic material, do students{\textquoteright} format preferences and behaviors vary across cultures?; How do their behaviors and attitudes compare among an international sample?; And how does the language of the reading impact format preferences?{\textquoteright} Amalgamated results from nearly 10,000 students in 19 countries show a consistently strong preference for print format, and most respondents do not feel the language of the text impacts their format preference, but an examination of country responses helps illustrate the subtle differences between them. This topic has special relevance to librarians and educators as we search for the correct balance of print and electronic resources in our collections and syllabi.",
keywords = "Academic reading, College students{\textquoteright} readings, Electronic reading, International studies, Print reading",
author = "Diane Mizrachi and Joumana Boustany and Serap Kurbanoğlu and G{\"u}leda Doğan and Tania Todorova and Polona Vilar",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2016.; 4th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2016 ; Conference date: 10-10-2016 Through 13-10-2016",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6\_21",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319521619",
series = "Communications in Computer and Information Science",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "215--227",
editor = "Loriene Roy and Joumana Boustany and Serap Kurbanoglu and Tolga Cakmak and Esther Grassian and Diane Mizrachi and Sonja Spiranec",
booktitle = "Information Literacy",
address = "Germany",
}