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While several colleges across the country are pushing electronic textbooks, touting them as more efficient and less cumbersome than regular textbooks, students are reluctant. E-textbooks still account for only 9% of textbook purchases, says Student Monitor, which researches college student behavior.

Cohort 7: here's some copyright news.

Greedy publishers?

This brings up the double-edged sword: you can correct actual factual errors in real time, which is wonderful, but this also could make life rather difficult for people who cite those (erroneous) facts unintentionally and use them to further research, policymaking, etc. as they wouldn't be able to go back and say "I got my information here" because the information wouldn't be there anymore. (Or, as someone in the comments section brought up, facts can be more easily changed subject to political necessity.)

I mentioned this site on a blog post. It's one of WHO's initiatives to provide free or low-cost access to journals for people in developing countries.

October 14 is Open Access day. Co-sponsored by the Public Library of Science, open access is gaining ground, but PLOS, SPARC, and Students for FreeCulture are hoping to get a little boost with this first OA Day.

Borders joins the e-book revolution with a new e-reader and e-book site created with a Canadian partner. The bookstore chain is entering a market crowded with other e-reading devices.

The Lead Teaser: The stories and issues that gain traction in social media differ substantially from those that lead in the mainstream press. But they also differ greatly from each other. Across a year-long study of blogs, Twitter and YouTube,

Some of us were introduced to Zotero in the indexing class. Looks like they're introducing some helpful features in the upgrade.

Google AdSense For Mobile Supports HTML Browsing Phones - 10/06/2009

Received notice of this page via Tim O'Reilly's tweet. He says: ""Very cool: Journal of Visualized Science Experiments. A multimedia re-visioning of the science journal."

Barnes & Noble plans to introduce its own brand of electronic-book reader, jumping in among challengers to Amazon.com's Kindle device." />

American Association of Advancement for Science wants to call out politicians and NGOs that intimidate climate scientists from publishing their research in journals or giving it to the public.