E-Content

EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-Content

HathiTrust: The Collection and Its Uses

May 6, 2013

John Wilkin and Sigrid Anderson Cordell provide an overview of HathiTrust and will discuss some uses of the materials in the repository. HathiTrust is the world's largest research libr…

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 Direction of Fair Use for Education: New Law and New Possibilities

July 12, 2012

Copyright and fair use has long been a critical element of innovative technologies. On campus, we steadily create new works and use existing ones—and nearly all of them are automatically pr…

What's at Stake in the HathiTrust Lawsuit?

October 28, 2011

On September 12, the Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors, the Union Des Écrivaines et des Écrivains Québécois (UNEQ), and eight individual authors filed suit against HathiTrust, …

How Digital Content + Open Licenses + Open Policies = Sustainable Educational Resources for All

September 12, 2011

Cable Green, Director of Global Learning @ Creative Commons, will discuss how, if we are smart, we will use today's technical and legal tools to build and share high quality, affordable edu…

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 …

Teaching with Digital Collections in the Undergraduate Curriculum

March 25, 2008

Many academic digital collection projects are focused on special collections and college archives. Such projects seek to bring collections "out of the basement" and enable greater acces…

Architectures for Collaboration—Roles and Expectations for Digital Libraries

January 1, 2007

The collective expertise of digital libraries in making available the diverse literatures of science and artistic expression, in concert with the increasing sophistication of commercial partners …

Archiving and Preserving the Web

January 1, 2006

Libraries and archives have long collected information to serve scholars in understanding history, culture, and society. Today, Web pages have replaced newsletters; blogs have supplanted diaries;…