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Online learning is flawed without e-books for everyone

The pandemic has exposed the limits that commercial models impose on libraries’ ability to facilitate access, says Gauthier Van Malderen

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The cost of e-books is hobbling university teaching

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Are we entering a new phase of predatory publishing?

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