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-# Useful resources
+# Learning & teaching: useful resources
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+[Campaign to investigate the academic ebook market](https://academicebookinvestigation.org/)
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+Also known as EbookSOS, this group was organised by a group of university librarians to raise awareness of the perceived unfair pricing and restrictive access models of ebooks and etextbooks.
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+[Background reading on the etextbook market and issues](https://cdn.hd4.uk/sites/academicebookinvestigation.org/2022/03/ebooksos-background-reading-1.pdf)
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+From the EbookSOS campaign website above.
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+[There’s big problems with the market for academic ebooks. For Rachel Bickley, market pressure alone cannot solve the problems in the market for academic ebooks. ](https://wonkhe.com/blogs/theres-a-big-problem-with-the-market-for-academic-e-books/)
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+Wonkhe. \[blog] 28 March 2021.
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+“In the time since a small group of academic librarians launched the #ebooksos campaign with an Open Letter asking for an investigation into the academic ebook publishing industry, we have faced some questioning of our actions. In spite of the letter having attracted, at the time of writing, signatures from over 3800 librarians, lecturers, students, heads of services, university senior managers and two vice chancellors, indicating that the cost and availability of ebooks is a significant concern across the sector, there have still been suggestions that perhaps we could sit down and discuss the issues with the publishers instead.
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+However, these issues are not new. The pandemic has brought the lack of availability of ebooks for institutional access, and the astronomical prices and restrictive licences under which those which are available can be procured, into sharp focus, but librarians have been dealing with this situation for a long time. Dialogue with publishers has been attempted, but it went nowhere useful. The investigation route was not a knee-jerk reaction to being unable to obtain the resources that we need for our students; it was the only option that those of us who set up the campaign could see remaining."
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+[ E-Textbooks – scandal or market imperative? ](https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2021/03/17/e-textbooks-scandal-or-market-imperative/)
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+Anderson, J., Ayris, P., White, B. (2021) LSE Impact. 17.03.21
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+UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship (2021) On Monday 15th March 2021, the UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship hosted a webinar in conjunction with Copyright4Knowledge that aimed to examine the acute difficulties for higher education and public libraries caused by publishers’ pricing and licensing practices and discuss some possible solutions.