2:52 p.m.
Dear Open Community,
I am writing to let you know that BCcampus will be archiving the Pressbooks versions of
OpenStax books that we have hosted in our Pressbooks instance since 2019.
They will be taken down officially on July 29, 2022. Right now, all of these books have
notices at the top of the webbook that points people to the up to date version of the book
by OpenStax. (The date on the notice says July 6, but we have extended the availability of
these Pressbooks copies it to the end of the month).
We have decided to archive these versions for two reasons:
1. A number of formatting errors were introduced during the original import from
OpenStax. As such, a lot of clean up work is needed to make these books usable.
2. The books are now quite out of date and we are unable to update them. In addition,
OpenStax has published new editions for a number of them. We want to make sure people are
referring to the most up to date versions in their courses.
If you would like to copy any of these books into your own Pressbooks instance, you are
welcome to clone them. They will be available until July 29. You can find all of the books
at the following link: Pressbooks Versions of OpenStax books – Hosted by
opentextbc.ca<https://pressbooks.directory/?net=BCcampus%20Open%20Publishing&pub=OpenStax>
Let me know if you have any questions!
Best,
Josie
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Manager, Production & Publishing, BCcampus
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