Information Technology

Facing faculty uproar, Syracuse library pulls back -- at least for now -- from plans to move thousands of books off campus.

In the age of Google and Wikipedia, can higher education create online reference works that are free, scholarly, and economically viable?

While many students have their own laptops, computer labs are growing on some campuses.

Will the decision of many college libraries to encourage students to text queries from their phones cheapen the research process, or rescue it?

Another deadline has passed for filing commentary on the pending settlement between Google and major associations of American authors and publishers over Google Book Search, the controversial project that aims to scan millions of books into a searchable electronic database.

A new viral marketing campaign rubs some college officials the wrong way.

Colleges release analyses of major experiments with Kindles -- and find students use less paper with the devices, but want better note-taking ability.

U. of Rochester thinks it has a model that could breathe life into anemic institutional repositories -- a problem that has undermined open-access movement for years.

UCLA says it will start streaming videos on course Web sites again -- despite legal threats from an educational media trade group.

Saint Michael's College thinks persuading its faculty to use free courseware from peer institutions could improve its liberal arts curriculum.