Journal greginnj's Journal: E-academic books
E-academic books
(Score:5, Interesting)
by apathy maybe (922212) Alter Relationship on Sunday May 14, @11:33PM (#15332291)
(http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/ | Last Journal: Monday October 17, @08:30PM)
What I would like to see is academic books in an electronic format (on a disc distributed with the hard-copy perhaps) so that I could search the text for a phrase or quote that I did not get the page number for. This would make referencing much easier. Of course having a lot of newspapers and books online from other countries also aids academic researching.
-- DISCLAIMER: Use of this advanced computing technology does not imply an endorsement of Western industrial civilization.
[ Reply to This ]
* Some such texts already exist
(Score:5, Informative)
by golodh (893453) Alter Relationship on Sunday May 14, @11:43PM (#15332336)
See e.g.:
-MIT's Open Courseware at: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html [mit.edu]
-Textbook revolution at http://textbookrevolution.org/ [textbookrevolution.org]
-Physiscs texts at: http://www.phys.uu.nl/~thooft/theorist.html#langua ges [phys.uu.nl]
-The assayer at http://www.theassayer.org/ [theassayer.org]
-Open content at http://www.hewlett.org/Programs/Education/Technolo gy/OpenContent/opencontent.htm [hewlett.org]
I also know a number of econometric and statistics texts that are also available as free Ebooks, but they are of interest only to specialists.
[ Reply to This | Parent ]
(Score:5, Interesting)
by apathy maybe (922212) Alter Relationship on Sunday May 14, @11:33PM (#15332291)
(http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/ | Last Journal: Monday October 17, @08:30PM)
What I would like to see is academic books in an electronic format (on a disc distributed with the hard-copy perhaps) so that I could search the text for a phrase or quote that I did not get the page number for. This would make referencing much easier. Of course having a lot of newspapers and books online from other countries also aids academic researching.
-- DISCLAIMER: Use of this advanced computing technology does not imply an endorsement of Western industrial civilization.
[ Reply to This ]
* Some such texts already exist
(Score:5, Informative)
by golodh (893453) Alter Relationship on Sunday May 14, @11:43PM (#15332336)
See e.g.:
-MIT's Open Courseware at: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html [mit.edu]
-Textbook revolution at http://textbookrevolution.org/ [textbookrevolution.org]
-Physiscs texts at: http://www.phys.uu.nl/~thooft/theorist.html#langua ges [phys.uu.nl]
-The assayer at http://www.theassayer.org/ [theassayer.org]
-Open content at http://www.hewlett.org/Programs/Education/Technolo gy/OpenContent/opencontent.htm [hewlett.org]
I also know a number of econometric and statistics texts that are also available as free Ebooks, but they are of interest only to specialists.
[ Reply to This | Parent ]
