Links on EM

Educational and Scholarly Materials Related Links

General and Industry Overviews

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textbook

http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/766.html

http://www.hoovers.com/book-publishers/--ID__188--/free-ind-fr-profile-basic.xhtml

http://www.nacs.org/public/industry.asp

• Statistics
  • Bogart, D. ed., 2008. The Bowker Annual 2008: Library and Book Trade Almanac 53rd ed., Information Today.

Overview of the Publishing Industry

• Make Textbooks Affordable Reports
  • http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/textbooks.asp?id2=14221

• Dolbeck, A., 2004. "Overview of the Publishing Industry". AllBusiness. Available at: http://www.allbusiness.com/buying-selling-businesses/purchasing-a-business-valuation/1010200-1.html [Accessed March 16, 2009].

• Epstein, J., 2009. "An Autopsy of the Book Business". The Daily Beast: Blogs & Stories. Available at: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-08/an-autopsy-of-the-book-business/full/ [Accessed March 16, 2009].

• Koncept Analytics, 2008. US Publishing Sector: Industry Profile, Research and Market.
  • http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reportinfo.asp?report_id=516118
  • Closed, paid resource

• Townsend, R.B., 2003. "History and the Future of Scholarly Publishing". Perspectives, 41(7), 32-41.
  • http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2003/0310/0310vie3.htm

• U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2005. College Textbooks: Enhanced Offerings Appear to Drive Recent Price Increases, U.S. Government Accountability Office. Available at: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-05-806 [Accessed March 12, 2009].
  • Related Press: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/11/07/051107ta_talk_surowiecki
  • Related Press: http://www.nacs.org/news/081605-gaospecialreport.asp

• Waters, D.J. & Meisel, J.S., 2008. "Scholarly Publishing Initiatives". In The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Report from January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007. New York, NY: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, pp. 31-45. Available at: http://www.mellon.org/news_publications/annual-reports-essays/presidents-essays/scholarly-publishing-initiatives [Accessed March 16, 2009].

Institutes and Information centers:

• Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
  • Run by the Department of Education

• American Textbook Council
  • Reviews K-12 social studies educational materials (incl. textbooks)

Associations

National

• The Association of American Publishers (AAP)

• Association of American University Presses (AAUP)

• International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA)
  • 'a private sector coalition formed in 1984 to represent the U.S. copyright-based industries in bilateral and multilateral efforts to improve international protection of copyrighted materials'
  • Press release: "Publishers, other copyright-related trade associations, submit annual intellectual property rights report" (http://www.taaonline.net/news/index.html#3)

• National Association of College Stores (NACS)

• Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA)

• Used Textbook Association (UTA)
  • 'leads the advocacy campaign for affordable textbooks and stresses the value of used textbooks for students'

State

• Arkansas Textbook Publishers Association
• Kentucky Educational Publishers' Association
• Missouri Textbook Publishers Association

Association Directors

• Directory of Associations (non-industry specific)

• Book Industry Study Group's Industry Research Resources (links to associations)

• Association of Educational Publishers' Web Resources links

Blogs Posts

• Lepionka, M.E., 2008. New Business Models in Textbook Publishing. Textbook Authorship. Available at: http://www.atlanticpathpublishing.com/blog/2008/05/new-business-models-in-textbook.html [Accessed March 16, 2009].

• Long, M., 2007. Book Publishing Industry News: Textbook Prices . . . The Horror! The Horror! TSTC Publishing’s Book Business Blog. Available at: http://tstcpublishing.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/book-publishing-industry-news-textbook-prices-the-horror-the-horror/ [Accessed March 16, 2009].

Books

• Abel, R. & Newlin, L.W., 2002. Scholarly Publishing: Books, Journals, Publishers, and Libraries in the Twentieth Century, New York: Wiley.

• Benkler, Y., 2005. Common Wisdom: Peer Production of Educational Materials, COSL Press. Available at: http://www.benkler.org/Common_Wisdom.pdf [Accessed March 12, 2009].

• Epstein, J., 2002. Book Business: Publishing Past, Present and Future, New York: W. W. Norton.

• Greco, A.N., 1997. The Book Publishing Industry, Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

• Greco, A.N., Rodriguez, C.E. & Wharton, R.M., 2007. The Culture and Commerce of Publishing in the 21st Century, Stanford, Calif: Stanford Business Books.

Journals

Journal of Scholarly Publishing

Other Resources

• Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, 2007. Turn the Page: Making College Textbooks More Affordable. A Report of the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, Washington, DC: Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance. Available at: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED497026 [Accessed March 16, 2009].

• Fister, B., 2008. What If You Ran Your Bookstore Like a Library? The Troubled Book Business Can Learn from Libraries' Willingness to Share. Library Journal, 133(7), 30.
  • http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ794735&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ794735

• Maron, N.L. & Smith, K.K., 2008. Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication: Results of an Investigation Conducted by Ithaka for the Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries. Available at: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED503401 [Accessed March 16, 2009].

• Rikowski, R., 2008. Digital Libraries and Digitisation: An Overview and Critique. Policy Futures in Education, 6(1), 5-21.
  • http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ795393&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ795393
  • This article provides an overview of some of the main areas surrounding the broad topic of "Digital Libraries". This includes the advantages and costs of digitisation; the traditional and digital library; the library community and digitisation; and an examination of various digital library projects. It is not exhaustive, but hopefully, it provides some general information and guidelines for the reader. The article concludes with a critique within a social and political angle, including a consideration of the gender issue.

Possible cases:

http://exchange.westlaw.com/

• Flat World Knowledge
  • http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/03/24/startup-challenges-textbook-industry-open-source-commercial-titles
  • http://news.infibeam.com/blog/news/2008/07/17/flat_world_knowledge_challenges_textbook_industry.html

• Amazon Kindle
  • http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/17/amazon-to-target-55-billion-textbook-market-with-new-kindle/

• Wikibooks
  • http://news.cnet.com/Wikibooks-takes-on-textbook-industry/2100-1025_3-5884291.html

OERs:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources

• OER Wiki
  • http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
  • http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=OER_useful_resources

• Open Textbooks
  • Sign the Open Textbooks Statement to Make Textbooks Affordable. Make Textboks Affordable. Available at: http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/statement.asp?id2=37614 [Accessed March 16, 2009].
  • Rube, K., 2005. Rip-off 101: Second Edition: How the Publishing Industry's Practices Needlessly Drive Up Textbook Costs, Washington, DC: The State PIRGs. Available at: http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/ripoff_2005.pdf [Accessed March 16, 2009].

• Brown, J.S. & Adler, R.P., 2008. "Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0". EDUCAUSE Review, 43(1), 16-20,22,24,26,28,30,32.
  • http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=Open+Educational+Resources&searchtype=basic&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900019b802d8548&accno=EJ783249&_nfls=false

• Burrus, C.S., 2007. "Connexions: An Open Educational Resource for the 21st Century". Educational Technology Magazine: The Magazine for Managers of Change in Education, 47(6), 19-22.
  • http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=Connexions&searchtype=basic&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&objectId=0900019b80303e3f&accno=EJ792135&_nfls=false

• Geser, G., ed., 2007. Open Educational Practices and Resources. OLCOS Roadmap, 2012, Available at: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED498433 [Accessed March 16, 2009].

• McGill, L. et al., 2008. Good intentions: improving the evidence base in support of sharing learning materials, Available at: http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/265/ [Accessed March 16, 2009].

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