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Azevedo, Alisha – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
Providing college students with free textbooks is no easy task. That seems to be the major lesson from several efforts to produce e-books that are low-cost or free to help reduce students' costs. Money pressures, slow adoption by professors, and quality concerns stand in the way as these projects hope to rival traditional publishing. Take Flat…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Costs, Textbooks, Electronic Publishing
Stratford, Michael – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
OMICS Publishing Group is an open-access publisher operating under an author-pays model. Unlike traditional journal subscriptions in which readers or institutions pay to read content, OMICS relies on its contributors for financial support. Although the author-pays model is not a new phenomenon in the realm of open access, its recent popularity has…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Periodicals, Financial Support, Graduate Students