E-Content

EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-Content

The PressForward Project and Scholarly Communication on the Open Web

February 21, 2013

A healthy ecosystem for scholarly communication requires a continuum from independently distributed work to postpublication peer review. With funding from the Sloan Foundation, the Roy Rosenzwe…

The Georgia State Copyright Case: Issues and Implications

September 8, 2011

The Georgia State University copyright infringement case has been closely watched in higher education over the last several years. This lawsuit, brought by several publishers against Georgia S…

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…

"Print" - sponsored by Juniper Networks & Qwest Communications

November 4, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference

The quotation marks around the title word indicate the increasing sense of irony of the term associated with academic publishing. Other terms that qualify for the ironic grammatical tag include &qu…

Publish or Perish: Online Reformation to the Rescue?

January 22, 2009 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2009

Online scholarly and research publishing isn't new. Low cost, quick access, and high positive search rates promise easy success, yet high failure rates abound. Should such publishing be abando…

The Strategic Impacts of New Technologies on Higher Education: Ithaka's Research Program

August 22, 2008

Ithaka's research group studies how new technologies are affecting higher education and how colleges and universities can best manage these changes in four discrete program areas: providing …

The Gutenberg-e Project: Opportunities and Challenges in Publishing Born-Digital Monographs

August 1, 2008

The Gutenberg-e project was created as a bold experiment to explore whether peer-reviewed, born-digital monographs would alter the way historical scholarship is presented, whether scholars would …

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…

The Use of Rich-Media Resources for Scholarly Communication

February 5, 2007

The ResearchChannel is an intellectual community that acts as a technology test bed and innovator for new methods to globally distribute scholarly research. Network, computing, and content-creation…

While You Were Out: How Students Are Transforming the World of Information and What It Means for Publishing

January 24, 2007 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2007

Students have been quietly revolutionizing the discovery and use of information, forcing scholarly publishers to confront some fundamental assumptions about their work. This presentation will discu…