Webinar on E-Books: Scandal or Market Economics?
If you’re concerned about the e-books crisis in higher education and public libraries then this is a webinar you should not miss!
The webinar is being hosted by the UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship/Copyright for Knowledge E-books and will take place on Monday the 15th March 2021 from 14:00 to 15:30 (GMT).
Acute difficulties for higher education and public libraries caused by publishers’ pricing and licensing practices as well as possible solutions will be discussed.
Speakers include:
- Dr. Paul Ayris, Pro-Vice-Provost (UCL Library Services & UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship)
- Johanna Anderson, Subject Librarian, University of Gloucestershire and founder of the #eBookSoS campaign
- Benjamin White, Researcher, Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management, University of Bournemouth and Chair of the Copyright and Legal Working Group of the European Research Library Association (LIBER).
The webinar is free to attend and you can register via Eventbrite. More details about the event can be found here: https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/2021/02/09/event-ebooks-webinar/.
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