{"id":2103,"date":"2007-06-25T22:32:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T03:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=355"},"modified":"2007-06-25T22:32:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T03:32:12","slug":"open-text-book-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/25\/open-text-book-blog.html","title":{"rendered":"Open Text Book blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opentextbook.org\/\">Open Text Book<\/a> blog was started a few days ago by the Open Knowledge Foundation.  In their <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.opentextbook.org\/2007\/06\/22\/site-launch\/\">first post<\/a>, they describe the blog as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a place to list and keep track of news about textbooks that are open in accordance with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opendefinition.org\/\">Open Knowledge Definition<\/a> &#8211; i.e. free to use, reuse, and redistribute. While in the future we may post text book content, for now the site will be mainly used as a registry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like how this is gaining momentum.  There are certain subjects that would benefit greatly from open texts, and I suspect we shall see more of these over the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlham.edu\/~peters\/fos\/2007_06_24_fosblogarchive.html#8073523585917509231\">Open Access News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Open Text Book blog was started a few days ago by the Open Knowledge Foundation. In their first post, they describe the blog as: a place to list and keep track of news about textbooks that are open in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/25\/open-text-book-blog.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2921,2925,2954],"tags":[3522],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-copyright","category-open-access","tag-open-knowledge-foundation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-xV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}