Reason for being: "facilitate the prolific creation of freely available, high-quality, well-maintained Content." Content = everything but software.

Registry of textbooks and related materials which are free for anyone to use, reuse and redistribute. Run by the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Read entire books online which were published under various forms of "open" copyright.

Goal: create a distributed global repository of production knowledge of past, present and future processes, materials, products.

Article on the first steps of an experimental, open-source/open content project that will "give a learner... free access to educational materials that can be readily manipulated to suit her individual learning style".

International non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth and development of free content, multilingual, wiki-based projects, and to providing the full content of those projects to the public free of charge.