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State-of-the-Art of Open Access Textbooks and Their Implications for Information Provision

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (TPDL 2015)

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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.

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This paper was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan under MOST Grants: MOST 104-2410-H-032-081.

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  1. Department of Information and Library Science, Tamkang University, New Taipei City, Taiwan

    Ya-Ning Chen

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  1. Ionian University, Corfu, Greece

    Sarantos Kapidakis

  2. Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poznań, Poland

    Cezary Mazurek

  3. Networking Center, Poznań Supercomputing and, Poznań, Poland

    Marcin Werla

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Chen, YN. (2015). State-of-the-Art of Open Access Textbooks and Their Implications for Information Provision. In: Kapidakis, S., Mazurek, C., Werla, M. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9316. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24592-8_24

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