Digital Publishing

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Digital Publishing

7 Things You Should Know About Personalized Digital Magazines

July 12, 2011

Applications like Flipboard, Zite, RSS5000, and Taptu aggregate content from personal social media networks and other sources, presenting the information in a snappy magazine-style format c…

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 …

Building "Above-Campus" Library Services

August 5, 2010

© 2010 Paul N. Courant and John Wilkin. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ). …

Publishing Lectures to YouTube: When Faculty Cut Out Central IT

October 14, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

What happens when faculty decide to bypass both administration and central IT and publish their lecture recordings directly to their own YouTube channel? Is the future of lecture capture a platform…

Press "Delete"

October 14, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

This presentation will introduce the concept of macro solutions : collaborative solutions that adopt a larger-scale perspective to achieve a more efficient and cost-effective nationwide system o…

New ELI 7 Things... Explores the Evolution of the Textbook

April 16, 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 wr…

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. …