From today and for the next two years a collection of 36 taught course texts is being made freely available to all higher education institutions as part of JISC’s national e-books observatory project....
The aim of the national e-books observatory project is to make available a critical mass of freely available e-books in order to gather much-needed evidence on the use of a greatly under-used but potentially enormously important resource....
In addition JISC is funding a deep-log analysis study to discover the precise ways in which the core e-books are used....
Funding by JISC to publishers via the aggregators will mitigate the risk of revenue loss caused by the possible impact on print sales....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/20/2007 09:49:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
