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William H. Walters – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Estimates of the price or value of the individual journals within a full-text database may be useful to librarians engaged in serials reviews or other collection development projects, to scholars investigating the determinants of journal prices, and to publishers seeking to rationalize their pricing strategies. This paper evaluates six methods of…
Descriptors: Databases, Costs, Publications, Periodicals
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Cox, Emily – College & Research Libraries, 2023
Research outputs are a form of testimony with researchers serving as expert testifiers. Research outputs align with philosophical understandings of testimony, as research represents an everyday, informal communicative act. If research outputs are a form of testimony, they are open to ethical and epistemic critique. The open access (OA) article…
Descriptors: Research, Access to Information, Periodicals, Publishing Industry
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Ezema, Ifeanyi J. – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2020
This study examines the research impact of gold open access (OA) journals in engineering and technology. A total of 37 gold route journals that request article processing charges (APC) and 66 other OA journals without APC (i.e., platinum OA) in the field were found in the Directory of Open Access Journals and used for the study. The publishers,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Periodicals, Engineering, Technology
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Reid, Pat; Maybee, Clarence – College Teaching, 2022
Selecting course reading materials is not necessarily an easy process. This article discusses selection concerns such as cost, inclusivity and options ranging from traditional textbooks to course packs. A review of literature finds extensive information about adoption of OER materials. Additionally, articles referring to difficulties in course…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Selection, Instructional Materials, Costs
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Willinsky, John; Rusk, Matthew – College & Research Libraries, 2019
Following the examples of SCOAP3, in which libraries fund open access, and eLife, in which funding agencies have begun to directly fund open access scholarly publishing, this study presents an analysis of how creatively combining these two models might provide a means to move toward universal open access (without APCs). This study calculates the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Research Libraries, Scholarship, Publishing Industry
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Conolly-Smith, Peter – History Teacher, 2019
Peter Conolly-Smith, a history professor at Queens College, uses the textbook "The American Promise," since 1998, and now in its seventh edition. He has been using this book for twenty years, and it has accompanied him from one school to another, providing the backbone of his post-1865 survey course. The relationship he has developed…
Descriptors: History Instruction, United States History, Graduate Students, Textbooks
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Worsley, Aaron James – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2019
The aim of this study was to investigate the views and opinions of health and life sciences scholars towards subscriptions to e-journals. An instrumental case study was employed as the research design. Nine scholars were individually interviewed. Health and life sciences scholars in this study were happy with the level of e-journal accessibility…
Descriptors: Costs, Electronic Journals, Health Materials, Science Materials
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Richardson, Jayson W.; McLeod, Scott; Hurst, Todd – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2019
There is a dearth of research on the perceptions of faculty members in educational leadership regarding open access publications. This reality may exist because of a lack of funding for educational leadership research, financial obstacles, tenure demands, or reputation concerns. It may be that there are simply fewer established open access…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Access to Information, Faculty Publishing
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Glasser, Sarah – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2013
This article reports the results of an analysis of five Big Deal electronic journal packages to which Hofstra University's Axinn Library subscribes. COUNTER usage reports were used to judge the value of each Big Deal. Limitations of usage statistics are also discussed. In the end, the author concludes that four of the five Big Deals are good deals…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Journals, Use Studies, Publishing Industry
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Enghagen, Linda K. – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2014
Long-awaited rulings in the copyright infringement lawsuit provide the most specific guidance available to date on the fair use of certain types of materials in e-reserves systems and online course management systems. Unless successfully appealed or otherwise overturned, this case represents a significant victory for Georgia State University…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Copyrights, Colleges, Legal Responsibility
Ellingford, Lori Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Although open access publishing has been available since 1998, we know little regarding scholars' perceptions and practices toward publishing in open access outlets, especially in the social science community. Open access publishing has been slow to penetrate the field of education, yet the potential impact of open access could make this…
Descriptors: Educational Researchers, Publishing Industry, Online Surveys, Access to Information
Barr, Catherine; Harbison, Constance – Computers in Libraries, 2012
The print publishing industry is showing signs of recovering from the worst of the economic downturn even as the surge in popularity of ebooks raises questions about the future of printed materials. From a high of 190,502 titles in 2007, overall American book title output fell to 178,841 in 2009 but climbed back to 186,344 in 2010; preliminary…
Descriptors: Printed Materials, Publishing Industry, Publications, Trend Analysis
Crawford, Walt – ALA Editions, 2011
Academic libraries routinely struggle to afford access to expensive journals, and patrons may not be able to obtain every scholarly paper they need. Is Open Access (OA) the answer? In this ALA Editions Special Report, Crawford helps readers understand what OA is (and isn't), as he concisely: (1) Analyzes the factors that have brought libraries to…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Periodicals, Access to Information, Library Materials
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Silver, Lawrence S.; Stevens, Robert E.; Clow, Kenneth E. – Journal of Education for Business, 2012
Textbooks are an integral component of the higher education process. However, a great deal of concern about the high costs of college textbooks has been expressed by those inside and outside of higher education. The authors focus on the results of a pilot study of a survey of marketing professors' criteria and use of textbooks and their reactions…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Marketing, Statistical Analysis, Teaching Experience
Young, Jeffrey R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
The story of one University of Maine student's quest for a reasonably priced textbook reveals just how complicated course materials have become as the textbook industry makes its awkward transition from print to digital. The student is Luke Thomas, a senior majoring in business on the Orono campus, who last semester took a 250-person introductory…
Descriptors: Internet, Online Systems, Textbooks, Costs
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