State-of-the-art of open access textbooks and their implications for information provision

Ya Ning Chen*

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Abstract

The skyrocketing price of textbooks is beyond students’ affordability. Educators and teachers have taken an open access approach to textbooks to address this issue. This study aimed to investigate open access textbooks from the perspectives of source of provision, use license, mode of use, file format, and business model in terms of information provision. Eighteen use cases of open access textbooks were selected for systematic review by two researchers. Future suggestions for open access textbooks are also discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationResearch and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - 19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2015, Proceedings
EditorsCezary Mazurek, Marcin Werla, Sarantos Kapidakis
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages313-316
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9783319245911
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2015 - Poznan, Poland
Duration: 2015 Sept 142015 Sept 18

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9316
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2015
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityPoznan
Period2015/09/142015/09/18

Keywords

  • Open access textbook
  • Open source textbook
  • Open textbook

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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