Digital Publishing

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Digital Publishing

Stanford School of Medicine E-Book Pilots

January 31, 2013

To investigate the rapidly growing field o f e-books , Stanford School of Medicine piloted the development and u se of e-books in two residency programs. The project focused on the aut…

E-Content: Opportunity and Risk

September 5, 2012

Shel Waggener is Senior Vice President of Internet2. The debate is over: students are asking for digital now, this semester. It isn't as if we didn't know the change was coming.…

7 Things You Should Know About the Evolution of the Textbook

April 3, 2012

Tablet devices and the publishing they enable are leading us to reconsider what constitutes a textbook , and they certainly change the landscape of what it has traditionally meant to write an…

Adoption of E-Book Readers among College Students: A Survey

September 22, 2011

Author Nancy Foasberg, looks into the use of E-Readers on a college campus.  This article was published in the September 2011 issue of Information Technology and Libraries . To learn whether…

Temple U. Project Ditches Textbooks for Homemade Digital Alternative

February 8, 2012

"A pilot project at Temple University this fall gave 11 faculty members $1,000 each to create a digital alternative to a traditional textbook." …

7 Things You Should Know About Open Textbook Publishing

March 8, 2011

The open educational resources model, including textbooks, has emerged as a response to rising text prices, a need for greater access to high-quality learning materials, the proliferation of e-r…

All In the Delivery

August 31, 2010

As publishers and analysts again wonder if e-books are about to take off, the growing popularity of rental options may play as important a role as technology. …

A sustainable future for open textbooks? The Flat World Knowledge story

August 3, 2010

Authors John L. Hilton III and David A. Wiley discuss the concern many college students and their families have a=about the high costs of textbooks. E–books have been proposed as one potential …

E-Books in Higher Education: Are We There Yet?

January 26, 2010

This ECAR research bulletin presents an update to the rapidly changing e-book and e-textbook landscape and provides some higher education stakeholders with a clearer view of the road ahead. As T…

Professor Faces Obstacles in Testing E-Reader Device for Digital Textbooks

January 7, 2010

A professor at the Catholic University of America has been testing a new e-book reader that hasn't yet hit store shelves but that is designed with textbooks in mind. …