4 Universities Band Together to Share and Protect Digital Resources

The online-education boom has made technology vendors powerful. So powerful, in fact, that some university officials say it’s getting harder and harder to update their technology without placing themselves under the sway of outside companies.

Now four major research universities are trying to promote strength in numbers. They are creating a consortium, called Unizin http://unizin.org/ , that they hope will help member institutions innovate on their own terms.

by Steve Kolowich

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