The OpenMind Publishing Group is bringing textbook publishing to the web by incorporating an open source model. The company, run by former executives from leading publishing groups, is now offering professors the ability to create personalized textbooks and integrated teaching aids for free. OpenMind will provide professors with the tools to create their own textbooks.
Professors can select content and format it to integrate with their syllabi and lecture notes.
The project is based on technology offered by the OpenText Project . Through the OpenText Project, content is available for free and is published free of copyright restrictions for use by the academic community in the open source environment. OpenMind plans to continue its support of OpenText Project by providing grants for content development. The Write News TM Weekly, a weekly summary of the week's top writing and publishing news stories published in The Write News TM that week. Click here to subscribe.