Opening the textbook: New opportunities for libraries and publishers?

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Opening the textbook: New opportunities for libraries and publishers?Opening the textbook: New opportunities for libraries and publishers?2014

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Maron, Nancy L.open textbooksOER modelsOER library initiativesFlat World KnowledgeconnexionsIthaka S+R1-12What solutions might we find within our community to solve the problem of rising textbook prices? In our latest issue brief, Nancy Maron, Ithaka S+R’s Program Director for Sustainability and Scholarly Communications, looks at recent trends in textbook publishing and suggests that collaborations between university presses and academic libraries might yield a new breed of textbook more aligned to the needs of faculty and students.does not applyhttp://www.sr.ithaka.org/sites/default/files/files/SR_BriefingPaper_Textbook_20140306.pdf

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SR_BriefingPaper_Textbook_20140306.pdf