Time to change rules on textbooks - The Diigo Meta page

• 26 Oct 09
  

  Dwayne Harapnuik

  textbooks education ebook Rory McGreal

• 23 Oct 09
  

  Peg Maddocks

  textbooks

• 21 Oct 09
  

  Mario A Núñez

  textbooks

  • hy do our cash-strapped school boards and provincial government continue to pay over and over again for the same resources either for the physical copies or through licensing?

  • The same is true for research. Right now, researchers give away their copyright when they send their articles to publishers, who then charge university libraries and other researchers a fee if they want to read it.

    In effect, taxpayers pay for the research, pay again for the salary of the researcher and then pay again to use the research. Individual libraries then must each pay separately to access the research, and taxpayers with no university library card must pay again if they want to access it. We're paying multiple times for the same thing.

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  • • Taxpayers have already paid for the research, so why should they have to pay again? The results of all publicly funded research should be made available to taxpayers free of charge.
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  Maggie Verster

  publishers library2.0 textbooks school2.0

• 20 Oct 09
  

  Dana Woods

  textbooks

• 19 Oct 09
  

  Cary H

  textbook

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