Selective bibliography of on‐demand academic public lectures (version 1.1 - August 2008)

This selective bibliography, intended for librarians, provides access to and information about university and other web sites in the United States offering online, on-demand public lectures.

Online, on-demand public lectures are a significant academic product and a body of scholarly material that deserves attention from librarians and information professionals. Informal research indicates that on-demand public lectures are poorly represented in the WorldCat database. For example, the #2 bestselling book on Amazon.com on August 11, 2008 was Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture; as of that date, the online version of this lecture had been viewed 6,167,093 times on Carnegie Mellon's YouTube page, yet no record in WorldCat links directly to this version. It is hoped that this bibliography and subsequent research will encourage academic librarians to exert greater bibliographic control over on-demand lecture materials through WorldCat and their library catalogs.