Embrace technology to avoid 'crisis of relevance'
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"[T]he annual conference of the Joint Information Systems Committee in London last week...also heard from Martin Bean, vice-chancellor of The Open University, who called for greater flexibility and open access to learning materials....Alma Swan, director of consultancy company Key Perspectives, said savings for universities setting up open-access repositories grew with the size of the institution. Martin Hall, vice-chancellor of the University of Salford, pointed to his institution's open-access repository, which Salford's academics have been ordered to use. "We didn't do it for the money but because we wanted to return to the notion of the university as a public institution," he said...."