Edbank

Hilary Nunn (Project Manager) Tel: 01908 858486     h.m.nunn@open.ac.uk Sarah Gamman (Copyright Officer) Tel: 01908 858473     s.a.gamman@open.ac.uk

Ariadne 1997
(ReLIS:doi:doiari:y:1997:i:11:p:5)

Abstract:

The Open University Library working with Routledge Publishers and the Open University (OU)'s School of Education and Rights Department aims to create, maintain and run a database of digitised teaching materials to support remote (off campus) students in teacher training. In order to achieve our aim Edbank requires: teaching materials ,permission to store electronically those sections of "text" (within these materials) that belong to third parties - rights clearances ,an appropriate database and a means to make it accessible. The plan is to digitise the course materials for the Open University's Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) together with the 9 readers co-published with Routledge and deliver them over the World Wide Web. Access will be permitted to OU PGCE students and a specified number of other institutions who provide teacher training. This will enable us to explore a number of issues such as: support for remote students based on dial-up access (PGCE students are loaned a PC, modem and printer for the duration of their course);perceived competition between digitised and non-digitised sources (PGCE students are supplied with OU produced materials at the beginning of their course) ; pricing of access to electronic materials and copyright management, including royalty collection.

Keywords: Descriptions of the progress of several projects, as written by the project teams.
Note: Hilary Nunn describes this project, based at the Open University Library. This article is an extended version of that which appears in the print edition of Ariadne.
Month: September 1997
Year: 1997

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