Books

Selected books on collaboration, open source, 'open' health IT, and innovation in the 21st century.

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Physician Desk Reference (PDR)

PDRhealth™ is the consumer web portal of PDR Network , which includes the online Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR) and the Health Care Notification Network (HCNN). Read More »

Project Gutenburg

Project Gutenberg offers over 36,000 free eBooks to download to your PC, Kindle, Android, iOS or other portable device. You can choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats. The Project Gutenburg web site carries high quality eBooks that were previously published by bona fide publishing houses. Read More »

The Power of Open

The world has experienced an explosion of openness. From individual artists opening their creations for input from others, to governments requiring publicly funded works be available to the public, both the spirit and practice of sharing is gaining momentum and producing results.  Read More »

Understanding Open Source & Free Software Licensing

Free and open source development models have made tremendous contributions to computing, sustaining both research and commercial projects and making it easier for large groups of people, who may not even be acquainted, to help each other. While this growing activity has a promising future, all of this work is built on top of licenses—legal documents—that often are difficult to understand. Read More »