1. Open Digital Textbooks:
An Overview of Major Initiatives
Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/Belgrade-1.ppt
gerrymck@iastate.edu

2. Venue
XI New Technologies and Standards:
Digitization of National Heritage 2012
Faculty of Mathematics,
Studentski trg 16
University of Belgrade
Belgrade, Serbia
September 21 > 1320-1350
http://www.ncd.org.rs/ncd_sr/Events/NCDbeograd2012/Program2012.pdf

3. Thank You
National Center for Digitization (NCD)

4. The screen prints selected for this
presentation are for
educational purposes.
Their inclusion does not constitute
an endorsement of an associated
product, service, place, or
institution.
Disclaimer (1)

5. The views and opinions expressed in
this presentation are those of the
presenter and do not constitute an
endorsement by Iowa State
University or its Library.
Disclaimer (2)

6. Open Access
Textbooks

7. Open Access Textbooks
Definitions
Wikipedia
An 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

8. 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.

9. 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)

10. 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

11. 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/

12. 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/

13. 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

14. 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/

15. 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/

16. College Open Access
Textbooks

26. Connexions

33. Flat World Knowledge

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

43. THANK YOU
FOR
YOUR ATTENTION

44. Corrected and Revised
09-27-12 / 1445 CT