Viewpoint Article in Math Intelligencer on open texts

[Karl-Dieter Crisman]

The following article cites both Sage and Mathbook XML a fair amount.  And is definitely worth the read, persuasive but also realistic about open texts.    (One of the authors has written a Sage lab manual for his book.)  Rob, probably a link on the MBX site would not be amiss.

The Mathematical Intelligencer

June 2016, Volume 38, Issue 2, pp 6-9

First online: 08 March 2016

Writing an Open Text

• Jim Hefferon 
•  Albert Schueller

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-015-9606-1

[William Stein]

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[Volker Braun]

Oh the irony...

[Karl-Dieter Crisman]

The paywall *is* discouraging, isn't it?

My coauthor and I discussed the irony of publishing in a journal of this type, of course, but it seemed to us that when you are in a minority and you want to persuade, then you need to go to where the majority is.    

Yep. Thanks for writing this careful and comprehensive piece.

 

I'll also note that it becomes free in a year.

Does it?  But that isn't true of the Intelligencer in general, is it?