E-Content

EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-Content

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." …

What to Withdraw: Print Collections Management in the Wake of Digitization

September 29, 2009

 As journals are increasingly accessed in digitized form, many libraries have grown interested in de-accessioning little-used print originals; but desires to repurpose space often come into co…

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…

‘Scholarship in the Digital Age’

November 14, 2007

"It’s hard to meet academics these days whose work hasn’t been changed by the Internet. But even if everyone knows that the world of scholarship has changed, it’s not always clear just…

The Future of Scholarly Communication: Building the Infrastructure for Cyberscholarship

September 26, 2007

This is a report of a workshop held in Phoenix, Arizona April 17 to 19, 2007. The objective of the workshop was to build on the findings of recent Cyberinfrastructure reports ([ACLS], [CI]) to id…

Standing Up for Open Access

January 1, 2007

"Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were perplexed: How could a membership organization that gladly accepts and archives their scholarly work turn around and limit transmi…

Report of the January 2007 ORE-TC Meeting

January 1, 2007

A detalied report of the results of the meeting of OAI-ORE Technical Committee describing features and requirements of the ORE model and its context in the Web Architecture. …

Strategies and Frameworks for Institutional Repositories and the New Support Infrastructure for Scholarly Communications

January 1, 2006

"Institutional repositories (IRs) are proliferating as they become an indispensable component for information and knowledge sharing in the scholarly world [1]. As their numbers increase worldw…

Digital Library as Network and Community Center: A Successful Model for Contribution and Use

January 1, 2006

The following article describes work on implementing a community DL model through a set of services that enabled geoscience education projects to collectively build the Teach the Earth educational …

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…