Wrasse with star fish: Great ... "California universities to produce 50 open-source textbooks," Two bills, one to create the textbooks and the other to establish a California Digital Open Source Library to host them, The textbooks must be placed under a Creative Commons license, allowing professors at universities outside of California to use the textbooks, Added to WUaS's Library Resources

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Great ... "California universities to produce 50 open-source textbooks" -

"California Governor Jerry Brown gave his pen a workout yesterday. In addition to signing legislation prohibiting social network snooping by employers and colleges, he also signed off on a proposal for the state to fund 50 open source digital textbooks. He signed two bills, one to create the textbooks and the other to establish a California Digital Open Source Library to host them, at a meeting with students in Sacramento.

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The law specifies that the textbooks must be placed under a Creative Commons license, allowing professors at universities outside of California to use the textbooks in their own classrooms. The textbooks must be encoded in XML, or "other appropriate successor format," to facilitate re-use of the materials."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/california-universities-to-produce-50-open-source-textbooks/ ... 



... added to WUaS's Library Resources - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources ...










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