E-Content

EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-Content

Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content

January 30, 2013

This UK report, commissioned by the Strategic Content Alliance and undertaken by Ithaka S+R, "Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content", tells of how …

7 Things You Should Know About Social Content Curation

October 8, 2012

An emerging class of online tools, including Pinterest, Scoop.it, EduClipper, and others, allows users to quickly and easily gather, organize, and share collections of online resources , parti…

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." …

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…

Course Views: A Scalable Approach to Providing Course-Based Access to Library Resources

March 30, 2009

The NCSU Libraries’ Course Views project, along with a locally developed widget web service, improves course-based access to library collections and services by dynamically generating library c…

Ithaka’s 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education

August 18, 2008

Ithaka's 2006 survey of faculty members sought to determine their attitudes related to online resources, electronic archiving, teaching and learning and related subjects.  This study afford…

Use and Users of Digital Resources

November 9, 2007

Use and Users of Digital Resources A survey explored scholars' attitudes about educational technology environments in the humanities By Diane Harley Human-centered design, human…

The Changing Information Services Needs of Faculty

July 6, 2007

© 2007 Roger C. Schonfeld and Kevin M. Guthrie EDUCAUSE Review , vol. 42, no. 4 (July/August 2007): 8–9 The Changing Information Services Needs of Faculty Roger C. Schonfeld …

Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections

January 1, 2007

"In May 2006, the University of Washington Libraries Digital Initiatives unit began a project to integrate the UW Libraries Digital Collections into the information workflow of our students by…

The Content of Collaboration

January 1, 2007

© 2007 Daphne Rentfrow EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 42, no. 3 (May/June 2007): 8–9 The Content of Collaboration Daphne Rentfrow Daphne Rentfrow, a former CLIR Fellow, has a Ph.D…