American Publishers and Google reach an agreement

Oct 5, 2012 | Academic Trends

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google announced a settlement agreement that will provide access to publishers’ in-copyright books and journals digitized by Google for its Google Library Project. The dismissal of the lawsuit will end seven years...

Tablet ownership triples among college students

Mar 16, 2012 | Academic Trends

The Pearson Foundation recently released their second annual survey on Students and Tablets.Key findings:Tablet ownership has more than tripled among college students since March 2011, with one-quarter of students now owning a standard tablet (25%), compared...

Authors sue the HathiTrust

Sep 29, 2011 | Uncategorized

The HathiTrust is an initiative from a variety of academic institutions to ‘build a reliable and increasingly comprehensive digital archive of library materials’.On September 12, the Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors, the Union Des...

Hacking the Academy

Sep 13, 2011 | Academic Trends

Hacking the Academy, a book crowdsourced in one weekIn May 2010 the two authors Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt asked online:Can an algorithm edit a journal? Can a library exist without books? Can students build and manage their own learning management platforms?...