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A little over a year ago, The Rebus Foundation embarked on a research and development project to prototype an open, web-based reading system, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Scholarly Communications program. Our main goals with this project were to clearly identify and understand the different players involved in the publication, distribution, andKeep reading “New Research from the Rebus Foundation: An Open Approach to Scholarly Reading and Knowledge Management”

Last semester, a number of instructors ran an assignment to expand the Antología abierta de literatura hispana (Open Anthology of Hispanic Literature, AALH). The AALH is a collection of public-domain texts from the Hispanic world, with critical introductions and annotations in Spanish by undergraduate students in Julie Ward’s Introduction to Hispanic Literature and Culture course atKeep reading “Copy Editor Needed for the Antología abierta de literatura hispana”

Rebus is supporting peer review for the Media, Society, Culture and You open textbook, authored by Mark Poepsel of Southern Illinois University. Currently we’re seeking a few peer reviewers for these chapters: Music Recording, “Sharing,” and the Information Economy Radio Broadcasting, Podcasting, and “Superbug Media” Digital Gaming Advertising, Public Relations and Propaganda If you’re interested in participating,Keep reading “Reviewers Needed: Media, Culture, Society & You”

Our own Zoe, project manager at the Rebus Community, will be speaking during the Open Education Week Global Web-a-thon on March 8/9/10 (depending on your time zone). In this session, she’ll give a sneak-peek of a new platform to support the collaborative creation of open textbook projects. The platform will launch in beta soon, soKeep reading “Open Education Week Global Web-a-thon: A First Look at Rebus’ Project Tools!”

Open Digital Citizenship Toolkit: Chapter Reviewers Needed The Rebus Community is supporting the creation of a Digital Citizenship open textbook out of Ryerson University. The Digital Citizenship Toolkit includes a student workbook and a faculty support book. The textbook will help students develop a higher-level critical lens through which to navigate the digital realm, while the facultyKeep reading “Updates: Open Digital Citizenship Toolkit, February Office Hours & more”

Catch Tim Robbins at MLA18 with an update on The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature! This unique open textbook project has come a long way since Robin DeRosa and her students put together the first version of The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature. Rebus has been supporting the anthology’s expansion, with Timothy Robbins as the leadKeep reading “Updates: Open AmLit Anthology, Media Innovation OT & January Office Hours”

2017 has been a big year for our team and all the incredible projects and collaborators we’re lucky enough to work with. This was Rebus’ first full year working hands-on with pilot projects, and we’ve learned a lot about what goes into publishing open textbooks. In particular, we’ve discovered that there’s a lot of work that happens day-to-day that doesn’t always get sharedKeep reading “Looking Back; Looking Forward”

First edition of Media Innovation & Entrepreneurship Open Textbook Available for Adoption! The first edition of Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship is now available for spring 2018 adoption! The book is available free in various digital formats on the book’s homepage, and will be available in print-on-demand in December 2017. Lead editors Michelle Ferrier of Ohio University and Elizabeth Mays of the RebusKeep reading “Rebus Open Projects Move Forward “

  As part of the grant we were awarded by the Mellon Foundation to research and prototype a reader-focused ‘open web-books’ ecosystem for scholarly monographs, we are conducting a survey on “deep reading” experiences of longform scholarly works. If you’re an instructor, librarian, graduate student, or frequent reader of academic monographs, please complete our survey. ThisKeep reading “Please Take This Survey, Part of our Mellon-Funded Research on Digital Reading Experiences”