Open Digital Textbooks:

An Overview of Major Initiatives

Gerry McKiernanAssociate Professor

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University LibraryAmes IA 50011

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Open Access Textbooks

Open Access Textbooks

DefinitionsWikipediaAn open textbook is an openly-licensed textbook offered online by its author(s). The open license sets open textbooks apart from traditional textbooks by allowing users to read online, download, or print the book at no additional cost.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_textbook

Open Access Textbooks

For a textbook to be considered open, it must be licensed in a way that grants a baseline set of rights to users that are less restrictive than its standard copyright. A license or list of permissions must be clearly stated by the author.

Open Access Textbooks

Generally, the minimum baseline rights allow users at least the following:•to use the textbook without compensating the author •to copy the textbook, with appropriate credit to the author •to distribute the textbook non-commercially•to shift the textbook into another format (such as digital or print)

Open Access Textbooks

Many authors also grant rights such as:

• to add, remove or alter content in the textbook, often on the condition that derivative works must have

the same license • to copy and distribute the textbook without giving credit to the author• to use the textbook commercially

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_textbook#Definition

Open Access Textbooks

• Bookboon • http://bookboon.com/

• Boundless• http://www.boundless.com/

• CK-12• http://www.ck12.org/ • College Open Textbooks• http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/

• Community College Open Learning Initiative (CC-OLI)

• http://bit.ly/RPoKJb/

Open Access Textbooks

• Connexions • http://cnx.org/

• Digital Textbook Initiative (California Learning Resource Network)• http://clrn.org/FDTI/index.cfm

• Curriki • http://welcome.curriki.org/ • E-Books Directory• http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/

• Flat World Knowledge• http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/

Open Access Textbooks

• FreeTechBooks.com• http://www.freetechbooks.com/

• Global Text Project• http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/ • Internet Archive• http://archive.org/details/opensource_English

• JumpBook • http://www.jumpbook.com

Open Access Textbooks

• Merlot • http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

• OER Commons Textbooks• http://bit.ly/jZ62B8

• Open Access Textbooks• http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/

• Orange Grove Open Textbooks• http://bit.ly/N1Yvt9

• OpenStax College • http://openstaxcollege.org/

Open Access Textbooks

• Saylor Foundation• http://www.saylor.org/otc/

• Textbook Media• http://www.textbookmedia.com/

• Textbook Revolution• http://textbookrevolution.org/

• Twenty Million Minds• http://www.20mm.org/

• Wikibooks• http://www.wikibooks.org/

College Open Access Textbooks

Connexions

Flat World Knowledge

http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/tutorial-videos

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