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When authorities shut down an online library of pirated material, book lovers grappled with the consequences of not paying for art and the price of higher education.
Next I open my new textbook in the Cornell Store’s VitalSource page, a sort of digital archive that stores textbook purchases. Navigating to the chapter marked in my syllabus, eager and ready to learn, I’m interrupted by yet another pop-op: a cookies policy. Cookies are, as Emily Stewart at Vox puts it, “small files that websites send to your device that the sites then use to monitor you and remember certain information about you.” You’re probably familiar with the concept. A cookies permission ...
Wiley withdraws more than 1,300 titles from a large multidisciplinary ebook collection for libraries as fall classes begin, hindering students’ access to affordable learning materials.
I did a DuckDuckGo search this morning about the big news in my universe, the coming availability of the McMurry Organic Chemistry textbook as an open educational resource. It's really telling what the hits were. Obviously the first hit is going to be an ad. The internet in 2022, even when you use a privacy-first…
Inclusive access content is discounted compared to print prices, but not
always by much, and prices can rise.
always by much, and prices can rise.
The pandemic has cemented the role of the digital in higher education. SCONUL's Libby Homer asks why so many students still struggle to access e-books