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The article reports on research which was conducted to identify the book format preferences of customers in education, research, and patient care settings of an academic health sciences center at Ohio State University, to discover the factors that influence customer format selection and to offer suggestions to librarians involved in the selection and delivery of health sciences books. Researchers evaluated 16 participants from the university. They found that the participants chose electronic formats for quick searches and brief reading and chose print format when reading larger amounts of material.

The article reports on research which used a survey to assess the types and levels of support that academic health science libraries provided to biomedical researchers. Researchers used the survey with 134 academic health sciences libraries in the U.S. and Canada. They found that 133 of the libraries provided some sort of support to biomedical researchers and that all of the libraries felt that librarian support for researchers was important, somewhat important or very important. They also found that several types of support were offered to researchers including licensed electronic resources and individual consultations with researchers.