TY - GEN
T1 - State-of-the-art of open access textbooks and their implications for information provision
AU - Chen, Ya Ning
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Open access textbook
KW - Open source textbook
KW - Open textbook
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-24592-8_24
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-24592-8_24
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84944730958
SN - 9783319245911
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 313
EP - 316
BT - Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - 19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2015, Proceedings
A2 - Mazurek, Cezary
A2 - Werla, Marcin
A2 - Kapidakis, Sarantos
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2015
Y2 - 14 September 2015 through 18 September 2015
ER -