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Awareness of Open Educational Resources Grows, but Adoption Doesn't
As COVID-19 forced professors to embrace digital texts, they were likelier to know about -- but not to use -- free, openly licensed materials. Progress was greatest at colleges that promoted OER, especially minority-serving ones.
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Big Deal for Open Access
University of California system secures a landmark open-access deal with publisher Elsevier. Some university librarians hail the agreement as a breakthrough, but others worry about possible long-term impacts.
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More Professors Ditch Print
A majority of faculty members say the pandemic affected their course structures last year. Only 15 percent thought changes were for the better.
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Online Learning Era Neglects Blind Students' Needs
A year after many campuses transitioned to remote instruction, blind students continue to encounter barriers that undermine their learning.
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Open Access Comes to Selective Journal
Nature sets article processing charge at the equivalent of $11,250 for researchers selecting open-access publishing.
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Intellectual Property ‘Grab’
Youngstown State faculty members say university is trying to seize all rights to their intellectual property.
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A Landmark Open-Access Agreement
A new deal between the University of California system and publisher Springer Nature will transform the way the institution pays to publish and access research.
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Complicated Picture for the Humanities
By some measures, the humanities are in decline. By others, their death has been overstated. A new report offers some data from before the pandemic.
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