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The Kansas State University Human Nutrition (HN 400) Flexbook: December 15, 2011

Key Takeaways Flexbooks are "a free and open-source textbook platform " that allows users to " build and edit collaborative textbooks ." Respons…
7 Things You Should Know About WordPress: September 2, 2011

WordPress is an open-source web application that is fundamentally a tool for publishing content , and a broad array of colleges and universities have made use of WordPress and encouraged its …
A sustainable future for open textbooks? The Flat World Knowledge story: August 3, 2010

Authors John L. Hilton III and David A. Wiley discuss the concern many college students and their families have a=about the high costs of textbooks. E–books have been proposed as one potential …
A Survey of the Scholarly Journals Using Open Journal Systems: March 4, 2010

The authors, Brian D. Edgar and John Willinsky, implemented a survey of 998 scholarly journals that use Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open source journal software platform, captures the characte…
Online Textbooks Deliver Timely, Real-World Content: January 16, 2009

Textbook: Information Systems: A Manager's Guide to Harnessing Technology Author: John Gallaugher, Associate Professor of Information Systems, Carroll School of Management…
The Textbook That Is Truly Free: January 16, 2009

Textbook: A First Course in Linear Algebra Author: Rob Beezer, Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science Department, University of Puget Sound The Truly Free T…
Taking a critical look at common support scenarios for open source software: November 15, 2008

Deciding whether to go with a particular open source product is an exercise in risk management: understanding the risks of your possible actions and choices, calculating when a certain level of r…
Repurposing Open Source Software for Agile Digital Image Library Development: October 16, 2008

In 2007, the University of West Florida Department of Digital and Learning Technologies was charged with the task of rapidly developing a digital image library focusing on the university'…
Free digital texts begin to challenge costly college textbooks in California: August 18, 2008

Would-be reformers are trying to beat the high cost -- and, they say, the dumbing down -- of college materials by writing or promoting open-source, no-cost online texts. …
Free and Open Source Options for Creating Database-Driven Subject Guides: March 28, 2008

This article reviews available cost-effective options libraries have for updating and maintaining pathfinders such as subject guides and course pages. The paper discusses many of the available op…

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