"Living Books About Life" is a collaboration between Open Humanities Press and 3 academic institutions: Coventry University, Goldsmiths, University of London, and University of Kent.
Funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), 21 living books are created and published by Open Humanities Press (OHP), the unifying theme is life: e.g., air, agriculture, bioethics, cosmetic surgery, electronic waste, energy, neurology and pharmacology.
The editors said that the series represents an exciting new model for publishing, in a sustainable and low-cost manner in the future. These books can be freely shared with other academic and non-academic institutions and individuals. They constitute an engaging resource for researching and teaching relevant science issues across the humanities, a resource that is capable of enhancing the intellectual and pedagogic experience of working with open access materials.
All the books in the series are open to ongoing collaborative processes of writing, editing, updating, remixing and commenting by readers, thus engaged in rethinking ‘the book’ itself as living.
The attributions/bibliography of each book often links to free full-text, some have video clips added. You may be able to download these books to e-book readers such as Kindle and the iPad!
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