Paper to Digital

Dr. Ziming Liu received his Ph.D. in library and information studies at the University of California at Berkeley in 1996. Prior to joining the faculty at San José State University in 2000, he was a research scientist at Ricoh California Research Center and a visiting faculty member at the University of Washington. He has published numerous papers in top-tier scholarly journals such as Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (1995), Communications of the ACM (2000; 2003), Information Processing and Management (2003; 2004; 2006), Journal of the American Society for Information Science (1996; 1997), and Journal of Documentation (1997; 2004; 2005).

• Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Evolution of Documents and Its Impacts Chapter 3: Trends in Transforming Scholarly Communications Chapter 4: Trust in the Preservation of Digital Information Chapter 5: Reading Behavior in the Digital Environment Chapter 6: Gender Differences in the Online Reading Environment Chapter 7: Perceptions of the Credibility of Scholarly Information on the Web Chapter 8: Cultural Differences in Credibility Assessment Chapter 9: Print vs. Electronic Resources: User Perceptions, Preferences, and Use Chapter 10: The Future of Paper in the Digital Age

"Liu's chapters are expansions of articles he has written for information science journals, but he manages to tie them together well." - College & Research Libraries News