New Podcast/Report from JISC: How Important Are Open eBook Standards to Universities?
New from UK’s JISC.
For universities and colleges looking to bring their teaching resources online, many are using the new ePub3 standard, which is what underpins Apple’s new iBooks and is become the defacto standard for ebooks. Linking to a JISC report to help universities understand the benefits of ePub3, JISC programme manager Ben Showers speaks to Nicola Yeeles via Skype to explain what universities and colleges can do to help their people use the standard.
Ben Showers discusses the podcast in this blog post.
Direct to Podcast (6:31)
See Also
Full Text Report Digital Monograph Technical Landscape: Exemplars and Recommendations Final Report (November, 2011)
Report is the focus of podcast and is available in several formats.
Additional deliverables including a look at publishing tools, device usability study, and user insights are also available.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.