I wish the passionate open access folks in science would start directing their ire at textbooks that cost hundreds of dollars.
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While publishers are fleecing our libraries and the public for journal access, they're doing it even worse with textbook prices.
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Yes, our campus uses OER heavily. It just doesn't seem big in the "open science" crowd. Nobody boasting about writing a free textbook.
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I have actually used free textbooks, e.g., http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/ by
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Some stats: the book has been used by about 2.5 million people in 229 countries. Most very shallowly, of course.
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But still > 10^5 have used it seriously, which is very unusual for a text on a specialized topic.
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I believe it demonstrates some of the benefits of open science.
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