Not exact matches
NNI has established collaborative links with several other local
academic and research institutions, including Kent Ridge
Digital Labs, the Institute of
Material Research and Engineering, the Genome Institute of Singapore, the National University of Singapore, the National University Hospital, and the Defence Medical Research Institute.
While not mandated, the initiative encouraged schools to make the switch from print to
digital materials based on estimated cost - savings and
academic improvement — because print textbooks are expensive and
digital content can be more personalized.
Digital publishing for the
academic arena has a lot of support, mostly for
materials aimed at the higher education market.
Slow to gain ground in the US due to ongoing conflict between the libraries and the publishers over compensation, ebook lending in Europe would be one way for readers to continue consuming high volumes of
digital material —
academic texts or popular — as a way to avoid the VAT issue.
If legal exam prep
materials prove to be a successful
digital offering, other key areas of
academic test prep can come to the market.
«Landmark Copyright Decision Defends Fair Use» (Nate Hoffelder, The
Digital Reader blog) A judge has found that Georgia State University librarians» photocopying of
materials was indeed legal under the
academic provisions of fair use and did not violate copyright.
Edit copy for
digital content,
academic materials, textbooks and printed marketing collateral.