Textbook access and affordability through academic library services: A department develops strategies to meet the needs of students

Eighmy-Brown, Melissa; McCready, Kate; Riha, Emily

doi:10.1080/15367967.2017.1289817

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“…While academic libraries historically avoided investing heavily on textbooks, some pivoted to purchase more textbooks in recent years (Diaz, 2017;Eighmy-Brown et al, 2017;Filion & Wallace, 2018;Greiner, 2012;Raish et al, 2018). However, even if libraries intend to purchase required textbooks, many major textbook publishers do not sell electronic versions of their textbooks to libraries (Bell, 2021; University of Guelph Library, 2020), and those that are available are largely limited to the humanities and social sciences and often provide a poor user experience (Filion & Wallace, 2018).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Doctoral Students’ Perspectives on Textbooks and Open Educational Resources: Needs, Impact, and Future Directions

Hosoi

McGeary²,

Munip³

2022

Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education

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While discussions of textbook needs have typically focused on undergraduate students, doctoral students face some unique challenges related to course materials. Their positionality as students and also potentially future faculty, researchers, or instructors can provide useful insight as academic libraries seek opportunities to promote open textbooks. This article reports on the results of semi-structured in-depth interviews with 12 doctoral students in the College of Education at the Pennsylvania State University. Findings suggest that they obtain access to required textbooks in different ways and tend to purchase a personal copy of a textbook if they expected to use it in the future for their research. Their course selection was not impacted by the cost of the required textbook, although textbook requirements influenced their perception of the teaching faculty. Some already had experience publishing OER. Some others expressed interest in promoting OER or open access materials, while others expressed skepticism of these initiatives. Many articulated the importance of accessibility. Materials related to older seminal texts, ethnographical works, and methods textbooks were suggested as potential open textbook targets. Implications for academic libraries are discussed.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Doctoral Students’ Perspectives on Textbooks and Open Educational Resources: Needs, Impact, and Future Directions

Hosoi

McGeary²,

Munip³

2022

Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education

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“…The UUM Library also serves to provide access and limited privileges to the general public. Sponsor ( a cademic i nstitution): An academic institution usually sponsors an academic library. An academic library's main goal should be related to serving the Academic institution users that sponsored it and spending money to maintain the academic library (Jordan, 2017; Eighmy-Brown et al ., 2017). In this study of academic library SC management, sponsored academic institutions named shortly as Sponsor. Resource s haring p artners: Resource sharing partners are those libraries where the academic library shares its resources.…”

Section: Model Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sponsor ( a cademic i nstitution): An academic institution usually sponsors an academic library. An academic library's main goal should be related to serving the Academic institution users that sponsored it and spending money to maintain the academic library (Jordan, 2017; Eighmy-Brown et al ., 2017). In this study of academic library SC management, sponsored academic institutions named shortly as Sponsor.…”

Section: Model Developmentmentioning

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A holistic view of academic library supply chain model

Hye

Mustaffa²,

Habib³

2022

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PurposeThe supply chain (SC) model is commonly utilized in manufacturing and has also been adapted to a variety of service industries with similar goals. However, in a few service industries, most notably academic libraries, the SC model is rarely implemented, despite the fact that SC management best practises have been shown to boost stakeholder satisfaction, revenue and decrease total expenses. This research aims to discuss the development of the entities of an academic library SC model and present the verifying/validation process of the model.Design/methodology/approachIn this research, both qualitative and quantitative approaches have been used. System thinking method used to develop the conceptual SC model of the academic library and fuzzy Delphi method (FDM) used to validate the developed model.FindingsThis research explores the functions and components that need to develop and validate the academic library SC model.Originality/valueThe outcome of this research is to construct a valid SC model of an academic library which could be a strategical tool for ensuring a quality service for the library users and the stakeholders because this model shows a holistic view of all entities of the academic library SC.

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“…Textbooks play a central role in the learning process despite the recent worldwide growth of distant learning, possibly because they provide deep knowledge about a subject and help consolidate learning outcomes (Carvalho et al, 2018). Their availability in academic digital libraries and repositories provides learners with the opportunity to access them at lower cost (Eighmy-Brown et al, 2017) and exploit further services (Atkinson, 2020). Regarding the latter, recent advances in artificial intelligence and natural language processing have opened up possibilities for automating the extraction of knowledge embedded in educational textbooks.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Annotation Protocol for Textbook Enrichment with Prerequisite Knowledge Graph

Alzetta,

Torre,

Koceva

2023

Tech Know Learn

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Extracting and formally representing the knowledge embedded in textbooks, such as the concepts explained and the relations between them, can support the provision of advanced knowledge-based services for learning environments and digital libraries. In this paper, we consider a specific type of relation in textbooks referred to as prerequisite relations (PR). PRs represent precedence relations between concepts aimed to provide the reader with the knowledge needed to understand a further concept(s). Their annotation in educational texts produces datasets that can be represented as a graph of concepts connected by PRs. However, building good-quality and reliable datasets of PRs from a textbook is still an open issue, not just for automated annotation methods but even for manual annotation. In turn, the lack of good-quality datasets and well-defined criteria to identify PRs affect the development and validation of automated methods for prerequisite identification. As a contribution to this issue, in this paper, we propose PREAP, a protocol for the annotation of prerequisite relations in textbooks aimed at obtaining reliable annotated data that can be shared, compared, and reused in the research community. PREAP defines a novel textbook-driven annotation method aimed to capture the structure of prerequisites underlying the text. The protocol has been evaluated against baseline methods for manual and automatic annotation. The findings show that PREAP enables the creation of prerequisite knowledge graphs that have higher inter-annotator agreement, accuracy, and alignment with text than the baseline methods. This suggests that the protocol is able to accurately capture the PRs expressed in the text. Furthermore, the findings show that the time required to complete the annotation using PREAP are significantly shorter than with the other manual baseline methods. The paper includes also guidelines for using PREAP in three annotation scenarios, experimentally tested. We also provide example datasets and a user interface that we developed to support prerequisite annotation.

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Textbook access and affordability through academic library services: A department develops strategies to meet the needs of students

Cited by 13 publications

References 4 publications

Doctoral Students’ Perspectives on Textbooks and Open Educational Resources: Needs, Impact, and Future Directions

Doctoral Students’ Perspectives on Textbooks and Open Educational Resources: Needs, Impact, and Future Directions

A holistic view of academic library supply chain model

Annotation Protocol for Textbook Enrichment with Prerequisite Knowledge Graph

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