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Coursera, Publisher Pilot Offers Licensed Content to MOOC Students

By Meredith Schwartz on May 9, 2013 Leave a Comment

aBeginning May 8, instructors providing Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) via Coursera will have the option to supplement their video lectures with content from major academic publishers Cengage Learning, Macmillan Higher Education, Oxford University Press, SAGE Publications,and Wiley, at no cost to their students. And that’s just the beginning: “Coursera is also actively discussing pilot agreements and related alliances with Springer and additional publishers,” the company said in a statement. This could be a sea change for both MOOCs and publishers’ business models.

Filed Under: Academic Libraries, Publishing Tagged With: Coursera, MacMillan, MOOCs, Oxford University Press, SAGE, Wiley

SAGE Acquires Adam Matthew

By Henrietta Thornton-Verma on October 11, 2012

Adam Matthew, a company that’s known for providing specialized online primary-source collections, announced today that it’s been bought by SAGE, a social science reference publisher.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: LJ, reference, SAGE

Plaintiffs Must Pay Almost $3 Million in GSU Legal Fees

By Meredith Schwartz on October 5, 2012 Leave a Comment

On September 30 Judge Evans, who had already said the publisher plaintiffs in the Georgia State University (GSU) ereserves case would have to pay the university’s court costs, has now put a number on that obligation: just shy of $3 million. That’s $2,861,348.71 in attorney’s fees and $85,746.39 in costs.

Filed Under: Academic Libraries, Copyright and Fair Use, Litigation Tagged With: aap, Cambridge University Press, Copyright Clearance Center, GSU, Oxford University Press, SAGE

GSU Ereserves Plaintiffs Propose Injunction

By Meredith Schwartz on June 1, 2012 Leave a Comment

The plaintiffs in the Georgia State University (GSU) ereserves case—Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Sage Publications—made one last attempt at getting the broader injunction they originally proposed before the trial but, realistically, offered as an alternative “a more narrowly tailored injunction” that more or less hews to the reasoning the court displayed in [...]

Filed Under: Academic Libraries, Copyright and Fair Use, Litigation Tagged With: aap, CCC, CUP, ereserves, GSU, OUP, SAGE

Does It Pay To Sue Libraries? | Peer to Peer Review

By Kevin L. Smith on May 24, 2012 Leave a Comment

Ever since the Georgia State e-reserves copyright lawsuit was filed in April 2008, the academic library (and faculty who were aware of it) community has been waiting to find out how Judge Orinda Evans would view the provision of digital course readings under fair use. Now we know, based on her May 11 ruling, that [...]

Filed Under: Academic Libraries, Copyright and Fair Use, Litigation, Peer to Peer Review Tagged With: aap, CCC, CUP, ereserves, GSU, OUP, SAGE

Reaching the Wikipedia Generation: Reference Roundtable Tackles Trends and Thorny Issues

By Henrietta Thornton-Verma on April 18, 2012

Filed Under: ALA Conferences and Meetings Tagged With: ABC-CLIO, Academic Libraries, ALA Annual, ala12, Alexander Street Press, Credo, discovery, EBSCO, ERIAL, Gale Cengage, Huntington Public Library, Oakland Public Library, Oxford University Press, Patron-driven acquisition, Paul Laurence Dunbar Library Wright State University, PDA, public libraries, reference, SAGE, Vendor marketing, Wikipedia, Wiley-Blackwell

Reaching the Wikipedia Generation: Reference Roundtable Tackles Trends and Thorny Issues

By Henrietta Thornton-Verma on April 18, 2012

On January 21, 2012, at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Dallas, LJ met with reference publishers, database aggregators, and public and academic reference librarians to discuss recent events and issues in the library world. It had been an exciting week. In protest against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), which would have effectively forced online sites to police user-generated content, online reference giant Wikipedia had “gone dark” for a day.

The blackout was fresh in everyone’s mind and inspired some soul-searching about overreliance on this resource by patrons and librarians alike. But the group covered lots of other topics, too, from debates over patron-driven acquisition (PDA) and how to get reluctant students and faculty into academic libraries, to innovative ways to measure usage and get marketing help from vendors. The following comments are highlights of the conversation.