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2 New Digital Models Promise Academic Publishing for Profit: October 2, 2008

"Scholarly publishers are well aware that more and more readers and libraries want to get hold of monographs in electronic form. The trick has been how to deliver content digitally without g…
A Cover to Cover Solution: How Open Textbooks are the Path to Textbook Affordability: September 30, 2010

This report evaluates cost-reducing options from the traditional textbook market - rentals, e-books and e-readers - and open textbooks as potential next steps to reduce the high cost of te…
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 …
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 …
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…
An Open Educational Resource Supports a Diversity of Inquiry-Based Learning: February 9, 2012

This article from the January 2012 issue of The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning , explores how open education resources (OERs) are actually being used. This c…
Course check: A conversation with three open access publishers about the challenges of sustainability: June 25, 2007

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and ACRL (the Association of College and Research Libraries) today announced that the topic of the upcoming SPARC-ACRL Forum on e…
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…
Do Open Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact?: January 1, 2004

While many authors believe that their work has a greater research impact if it is freely available, studies to demonstrate that impact are few. This study looks at articles in four disciplines at v…
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…

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