September 29, 2009 – 8:44 am
nbsp;http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/h…
While ostensibly long reviews of four electronic resources, Mark Herring
offers in reality an assessment of the current state and likely future
of electronic monographs and sources in the humanities. His reviews of
the [14]Gutenberg-e project and ACLS’s [15]Humanities-e Books are
particularly thoughtful (though the former [...]
September 23, 2009 – 2:44 pm
http://www.textbookrevolution.org/http://www.textbookrevolution.org/
Textbook Revolution is a student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors. We want to get these materials into classrooms. Our approach is to bring all of the free textbooks we can find together in one place, review them, and let the best rise to the top and [...]
September 21, 2009 – 12:47 pm
nbsp;http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/wp-cont…
Phase One Report
(Public Version)Through interviews with key stakeholders and desk research, the objectives of Phase 1 of this study are:
• To provide an overview of the current status regarding the supply of textbooks in electronic form in the UK, drawing on experience from the US as appropriate;
• To understand what the barriers are to library [...]
September 21, 2009 – 7:42 am
nbsp;http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Free-Elect…
Making free e-textbooks available to students does not affect sales of the print books, a new report from a publicly funded group in Britain suggests.
But the managing director of a major publishing company is challenging those findings, saying sales of print materials were not as high as expected during the period when e-books were available [...]
September 15, 2009 – 7:23 am
What do we mean by e-business, and why is it relevant to the strategic management of universities and colleges?
JISC’s first ever e-book ‘The e-Revolution and Post-Compulsory Education:
Using e-Business Models to deliver Quality Education’, published online earlier this year, is now being updated with seven fresh articles on how new and emerging technology is changing education [...]
September 11, 2009 – 10:51 am
nbsp;http://research.hrc.utexas.edu/poedc/
This digital archive was launched to accompany the 2009 Poe Bicentennial exhibition, “From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe,” a joint venture of the Ransom Center and the Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. The digital collection incorporates images of all Poe manuscripts and letters at the Ransom Center [...]
September 11, 2009 – 10:33 am
nbsp;http://www.nzetc.org/
Welcome to the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre’s free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials, offering an ever expanding, fully searchable, set of images and full-text books, manuscripts and journals.
September 10, 2009 – 8:48 am
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that nearly 250 health sciences titles published and/or publishing in 2009 and 2010 will be launched in October. These new eBook collections cover clinical content in clinical medicine, veterinary medicine, and health professions. Elsevier will make these titles available electronically through ScienceDirect, its online scientific research platform. These new eBook [...]
August 14, 2009 – 8:29 am
nbsp;http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id…
As digital technologies are expanding the power and reach of research, they are also raising complex issues. These include complications in ensuring the validity of research data; standards that do not keep pace with the high rate of innovation; restrictions …
August 14, 2009 – 8:20 am
nbsp;http://www.clrn.org/fdti/
While digital textbooks were reviewed for their alignment with the content standards, California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied during this phase. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of these books are reminded to conduct their own reviews to determine whether these resources meet their needs.
There are links to free digital textbooks [...]
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