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Smaller Servings for Libraries
Decades of Education Department data show universities allocating less money to libraries as overall spending has ballooned.
New Seal of Approval
Digital humanities advocates look to hammer out a publishing platform to help institutions apply traditional peer review mechanisms to nontraditional research.
Open Access and Interventionism
White House solicitation about the government's role in making federally funded research available to the public rekindles debate over open access.
Why Pay for Intro Textbooks?
Rice U. unveils free, digital offering that it says could save students nationwide tens of millions of dollars.
Defining Fair Use
Association of Research Libraries spells out principles and best practices for making copyrighted materials as free as possible while avoiding lawsuits.
Behind the Digital Curtain
Could weaving the digital humanities into undergraduate education help improve students' information literacy?
Libraries: A Paper Wikipedia
With the open-source encyclopedia blacked out to protest U.S. Internet bill, college librarians offer their services (and verifiable sources).
Pulling for Better E-Textbook Prices
Universities have started banding together to negotiate favorable contracts with software vendors. With new effort, a group of them aims to exercise similar leverage with publishers on behalf of students.