[GOAL] Re: Becoming Unglued ... a rejoinder ...

[Dana Roth]

In regards e-books in the sciences and engineering ...


This from one of our undergrads … who didn’t want an e-book …
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It is mostly personal preference that I prefer paper copies -

  *   I like being able to quickly flip through pages (especially with math books) to refer back to equations/concepts, while I'm not tech-savvy enough to open two pages in a e-publication.
  *   Similar concept - having multiple books open and available is useful
  *   Being able to look up references online in books
  *   I take notes on my computer, so if I have an e-publication up, I can't take notes
I suppose I'm just old fashioned. I realize now that this is not so much "anti-epublication" as "not enough e-readers to look at several of these e-pubs simultaneously."




Dana L. Roth
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From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [goal-bounces at eprints.org] on behalf of Eric F. Van de Velde [eric.f.vandevelde at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 6:35 PM
To: goal at eprints.org
Subject: [GOAL] Becoming Unglued...

I posted my latest blog a couple of days ago. It is slightly off-topic for this list in that it is about books, not journals. However, it is 100% about open access and an innovative way of getting around long copyright terms. Who knows, it can be translated to journals...

On Becoming Unglued...
On June 20th, the e-book world changed: One innovation cut through the fog of the discussions on copyright, digital rights management (DRM), and various other real and perceived problems of digital books. It did not take a revolution, angry protests, lobbying of politicians, or changes in copyright law. All it took was a simple idea, and the talent and determination to implement it.
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http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com/2012/06/on-becoming-unglued.html


--Eric.

http://scitechsociety.blogspot.com

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