The pros and cons of open technology
It’s not just the high cost of textbooks that have libraries scrambling to provide open education (OER) resources. As professors look at alternative options to retain copyright on…
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New open-source strategy would drop textbook costs to $0
Holding a whiteboard, the University of Maryland-College Park students scrawled their complaints and posed for a picture. “My name is Justin and I spent $114 on ONE textbook,”…
HBCUs go online with open educational resources
Hoping to address a long-standing issue at historically black colleges and universities, Wiley College has teamed up with Lumen Learning to create a center entirely devoted to the…
Open access requirement sparks debate
Online open access publisher the Public Library of Science (PLOS) is refining a new policy that requires authors to make their data publicly available upon the publication of…