Textbook publishers connect professors, instructors and students in ways that alternatives, such as open e-textbooks and open educational resources, simply do not.
Network has the features of openness, pluralism and initiation. Information network brings about not only positive impact to teen-agers, but also negative influence to them.
He says that more openness in science could help to discourage what some perceive as a common practice of shutting out early-career scientists' requests for data.