Digital Publishing

Nearly half of professors think students learn better with print materials, according to a new report—but demand from both students and institutions is still pushing them to be more digitally focused.

Critics say a directive to make federally funded research immediately free to the public could violate authors’ copyrights. It could also disrupt the $19 billion academic publishing industry.

In a new pilot project, faculty are encouraged to use generative artificial intelligence to create, or build on, open educational resources.

MIT Press’s digital approach has broadened readership of monographs, but questions remain on whether its “idealistic” open-access model can change the publishing industry. 

A new study by Ithaka S+R seeks to gain insight into the technology’s potential to transform the production of academic scholarship.