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by Jonathan H. Harwell, Rollins College
What a week! Springer has launched an open-access book publishing program; SAGE has published an open-access report on the future of open access in academic libraries; Campus Technology has published a feature article on open access and journal pricing; Bruce Willis might or might not be concerned [...]
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There was some major flooding from Hurricane Isaac along the Gulf Coast this past week, and Charleston also saw so much water that people took to kayaking down Market Street and right through the City Market. (Thanks, Roberto!) Meanwhile, libraries like ours are updating our disaster plans. [...]
Read More... →ERIC Documents, as you’ll recall, are non-journal items that are indexed in the ERIC database, which is an open-access education index provided by the US Department of Education. ERIC Documents are identified in ERIC with accession numbers beginning with ED, as opposed to EJ for journal articles. ERIC is also licensed to libraries by [...]
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You’ve probably heard by now that a proposed injunction in the copyright case against Georgia State University has been rejected by a US District Court judge. That’s because the university is seen as “the prevailing party.” Kevin Smith and Steve Kolowich explain this much better than I could.
Meanwhile, D. [...]
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As Audrey Watters explains, there have been a few disruptions in the textbook market lately, and InsideHigherEd is all over it. Doug Lederman takes a closer look at Boundless, which bundles open-access content (including Wikipedia) for students as a substitute for buying textbooks. I tested Boundless [...]
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There’s a lot to catch up on since the malware attack on the website, and if we ignore them, then the malware wins! So here’s your carnival of hot topics from July 2012.
Marshall Poe of the New Books Network suggests that the way forward [...]
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