experience with Perusall and other annotation/CMS relation to OER

[Allegra Swift]

Hello all,

Do any of you have faculty working with Perusall or other annotation software/systems? It seems like this one is a boon to traditional publishing and the new textbook access key model. While it is helpful to faculty and publishers, it seems it might not be as beneficial to students who struggle to pay.

What do you all think? Do you know of other software or systems that allow students and faculty to annotate and share works like this? Some of the process and ability to collaborate seems really helpful to faculty and students but it leaves me wondering about the cost and copyright issues.

http://support.perusall.com/knowledge_base/topics/how-does-perusall-work-with-publishers

# 2 non-transferable, "resales, unlike with print books, are eliminated."
# 6 So absolved from using SciHub? "Even if your print book was scanned by a thief and put on some foreign website for all to download for free, students assigned your book through Perusall will still buy access.."

http://perusall.com/downloads/gary-king-webinar-slides.pdf
"<50% of student buy the book
Students buy content through Perusall (online or via a code from your bookstore); usually pay less

Publishers love it (keeps their content central; 100% sell-through, no resales, the ultimate solution to IP piracy)"

Thanks in advance for any info, experience, or thoughts.

Allegra Swift
Scholarly Communication and Publishing Coordinator
Claremont Colleges Library
allegr...@cuc.claremont.edu

[Kevin Hawkins]

I don't think there are copyright concerns here: the publisher provides a PDF of the content to Perusall (presumably after signing a contract in which they say that they have all rights in their content and grant certain rights to Perusal).  Persusall then handles selling access to students.

As for cost, Perusall boldly claims in the first paragraph that their solution does not increase the price to students.  I take this to mean that when they sell access on behalf of a publisher, they'll be selling for the same retail price that the publisher used to offer when distributing on their own.  Perhaps the publisher even gets to determine the price when working with Perusall.

Obviously, you can only claim that there's no increase in price to students if we assume that the students were always buying a new copy of the book at retail price.  However, as the article acknowledges, students often buy a used copy or download the book from "some foreign website" instead in order to save money.

As for other systems for annotating and sharing, the one that comes to mind is Hypothesis.  It can used to annotate content available at any URL, plus local copies of PDFs, and allows for sharing between users (even of local copies of PDFs).  There are some others listed on the web annotation page in Wikipedia.  I think I encountered Marky somewhere once but don't anything about it.

Kevin

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[Allegra Swift]

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for this. The faculty also provide pdfs, as is the case with my faculty looking at OA content.

Per an email exchange with Perusall Co-Founder, "There is no cost for the use of Perusall if you use open access materials! You can upload any open source materials that can be freely shared with students (or any other materials you have permission to share with students) directly to the Perusall platform. Just obtain a copy in PDF format and then drag and drop the PDF file onto your course home page in Perusall."

I brought this up in an info resources and systems meeting today and they wanted to know if there was any integration with libraries. I am going to ask if Perusall is working with library systems to make sure that the student has access for free before charging them. It would be great if there was an IR search ,as well. One can dream.

Thank you for sharing the annotation wiki. I think what may have hooked the professor was the reporting and assessment utilities of Perusall. I don't see these abilities in the other platforms.

Best,

Allegra

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