On the occasion of the start of the academic year, Maarten Zeinstra (KR21’s national coordinator for the Netherlands) wrote about academic libraries’ challenges to ensure access to knowledge in e-books and e-textbooks as publishers exert more and more control in the digital age.
Explore this enlightening article published in the national InformatieProfessional magazine (in Dutch).
17 November 2023
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