An Investigation into Free eBooks
dc.contributor | Wynne, Martin |
dc.contributor.author | Berglund, Ylva |
dc.contributor.author | Morrison, Alan |
dc.contributor.author | Wilson, Rowan |
dc.contributor.author | Wynne, Martin |
dc.coverage.placeName | Oxford |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-25 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-03T16:50:58Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-03T16:50:58Z |
dc.date.created | 2004 |
dc.date.issued | 2004 |
dc.identifier | ota:2952 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/2703 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/2952 |
dc.description.abstract | A report made by the OTA for JISC on the use of free Ebooks in higher education. This is work is made available here in a number of different formats, partly for reasons of accessibility, but also as a means of demonstrating contemporary ebook formats which are described in the work. |
dc.description.sponsorship | JISC |
dc.format.extent | Text data 23 files: 25 MB |
dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
dc.relation.ispartof | OTA Guides |
dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
dc.rights.label | PUB |
dc.subject.lcsh | Education, Higher |
dc.subject.other | Handbooks |
dc.title | An Investigation into Free eBooks |
dc.type | Text |
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branding | Oxford Text Archive |
files.size | 24823840 |
files.count | 23 |
otaterms.date.range | 2000-present |
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Final Report
March 2004
Ylva Berglund,
Alan Morrison,
Rowan Wilson,
Martin Wynne
Table of Contents
* Acknowledgements
* Executive Summary
* 1. Introduction
* 2. Survey of Free e-Book Collections
o 2.1. Tools to find free e-books
o 2.2. A survey of free e-book sites
o 2.3. Academic repositories
o 2.4. Academic e-book creators
o 2.5. Enthusiast e-book collections
o 2.6. Single author/genre sites
o 2.7. Reference, miscellany and foreign language resources
o 2.8. Comments and conclusions
* 3. Survey of text encoding formats
o 3.1. Plain Text
o 3.2. SGML
o 3.3. HTML
o 3.4. XML
o 3.5. TEI
o 3.6. DocBook
o 3.7. Open e-book Publication Structure
o 3.8. Microsoft Reader
o 3.9. Rich Text Format
o 3.10. Adobe PDF
o 3.11. Palm PDB and PRC format . . .

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