E-Content

EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-Content

Dramatically Bringing Down the Cost of Education with OER: How Open Education Resources Unlock the Door to Free Learning

February 7, 2012

This issue brief from the Center for American Progress and EDUCAUSE seeks to provide a substantive understanding of OER and at the same time inform the emerging public debate over their use in p…

Defining “Noncommercial”: A Study of How the Online Population Understands “Noncommercial Use”

September 18, 2009

This report details the results of a research study launched in September 2008 to explore differences between commercial and noncommercial uses of content found online, as those uses are understo…

Textbooks for the Disabled

August 28, 2009

Publishers open an online system designed to replace the tedious, costly and lawsuit-ridden process of supplying disabled students with course materials. …

Why Lakoff still matters: Framing the debate on copyright law and digital publishing

June 1, 2009

In 2004, linguist and cognitive scientist George Lakoff popularized the idea of using metaphors and “frames” to promote progressive political issues. Although his theories have since been cri…

Open Access in 2007

February 15, 2008

Peter Suber shares his annual review of the open access movement. The article highlights 15 categories of open access activity in 2007. Peter Sub…

A Review of the Open Educational Resources Movement: Achievement, Challenges and New Opportunities

February 27, 2007

This report examines The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s past investments in Open Educational Resources, the emerging impact and explores future opportunities.  Central to the report …

Institutional Repositories: Evaluating the Reasons for Non-use of Cornell University's Installation of DSpace

January 1, 2007

This article reports on a three-part evaluative study of institutional repositories. We describe the contents and participation in Cornell's DSpace and compare these results with seven univers…

Scholarship and Academic Libraries (and their kin) in the World of Google

January 1, 2006

The prospect of ubiquitous digitization will not change the fundamental relationships among scholarship, academic libraries, and publication. Collaboration across time and space, which is a princip…

Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books

January 1, 2005

What are the stumbling blocks to digitization? Is copyright law a major barrier? Is it easier to negotiate with some types of publishers than with others? To what extent does the age of the materia…