In 2017, the HKUST community downloaded over 1 million book chapters from our e-book collection. At the same time, e-journal article use remained strong (less than in 2016, but still more than in 2015).
This increase in the e-book chapter downloads is a logical result of the Library’s efforts to continue to increase the e-book collection, which has risen from ~259,000 titles in 2014 to 574,000 in 2018.