Five Questions for UC Berkeley Librarian Jeffrey MacKie-Mason | California Magazine

"Another benefit of user-contributed content: open-access educational materials. Students often pay more than $1,000 for books per semester. The Library is leading a project on campus to increase the use of open materials, which are licensed for free use. These are often created by teams of scholars, contributing from multiple locations, just as open source software is. The materials are the ones they use in the college classes they teach, so they care about the quality!"