News: Academic Publishing Weekly, 5/22/23 – 5/26/23
New AI guidance, publisher involvement in anti-censorship efforts, and book lists for AAPI month and summer
Posted on in News
The Open Stacks
-
Evaluating the Open Educational Resource
It is important to recognize that course materials are evaluated and adopted by the instructors themselves, who care first and foremost about the quality of the instruction they offer.
Posted on in Publisher Editorial
-
Choice publishes white paper examining course materials adoption and the outlook for OER
Posted on in Press Releases
-
Choice publishes white paper examining marketing outreach activities by academic libraries
Posted on in Press Releases
-
Switching Costs
For the goal of creating these more open and equitable systems of scholarship to become a reality, we need to understand the real-world friction that inhibits change instead of looking for villains.
Posted on in Publisher Editorial
-
The Open Choice Review Template
For OER to succeed as alternatives to commercially produced materials, they must be of a quality equal to or better than these competing works, sufficiently so as to win the trust of instructors in the field.
Posted on in Publisher Editorial
-
Choice publishes white paper on new directions for institutional repositories
Posted on in Press Releases
-
What is a Textbook?
A textbook, no less than any other text, must not be regarded simply as an assemblage of interchangeable parts.
Posted on in Publisher Editorial
-
Alternative Facts
We need to heed the tenets of information literacy we teach others, including knowing the source of the news we receive and, yes, going so far as to pay for professionally produced and curated information.
Posted on in Publisher Editorial
-
Choice to launch The Authority File podcast
Posted on in Press Releases
-
An Imperial Message
The act of communication always involves a loss, the transmission of information that is no longer current, just as our eyes are always showing us a world that existed a moment before.
Posted on in Publisher Editorial
-
The “Issue” Issue
At ChoiceReviews.org, we publish new review content every day.
Posted on in Publisher Editorial
-
Choice to Present POV Videos of Staffer’s First ALA Conference
Posted on in Press Releases
Choice Newsletters
For the latest in librarianship, subscribe to Choice newsletters.
Subscribe Now