WikiBooks

WikiBooks is a service created by the WikiMedia Foundation (the same group who maintains Wikipedia) as an environment for collaboratively authoring and sharing open-content textbooks. See the about page on the WikiBooks site for more information.

Benefits

Creating and sharing a book on WikiBooks has the following benefits:

• Easy distribution and access
• Easy collaboration in the MediaWiki authoring environment (the same software Wikipedia uses)
• High visibility (since the WikiBooks site is heavily trafficked)

Limitations and Potential Concerns

Utilizing this resource may pose a few limitations and concerns, depending upon a variety of factors:

• Authors do not maintain copyright of materials, since all content is released under a Creative Commons ShareAlike license
• Anyone can edit or contribute to pages, even against the authors' desires

Other Alternatives

Google Knol