Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Tuesday, July 10, 2001

http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010706/business-62

Online libraries compete for university presses

By Garrett M. Graff
Harvard Crimson Harvard U.

(U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Twelve major university publishing houses -- including Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) -- signed agreements last month to publish many of their works online with Ebrary.com, a start-up company competing to deliver academic content free-of-charge to Internet users. Harvard University Press (HUP), by contrast, has inked an agreement with Questia.com to provide the competing online library with material from the press' vast collection of written works....

 



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