Friday, October 24, 2008

Global Text at the University of Concepcion

We just published a small note on the newspaper of University of Concepción (Chile), PANORAMA, describing the Global Text Project. This is one of the first steps we are taking to give more publicity of our project in the local community.

Currently there is one book in the Global Text project, it is "Introducción a la Mecánica y el Calor" (Introduction to Mechanics and Heat, a Physics 101 book), written by Prof. Juan Inzunza of the Geophysics Deparment. We recently requested the approval of the University to give a Creative Commons licensing to another book from Prof. Alberto Foppiano, who had developed a very useful book of exercises for Physics (electricity and magnetism, Physics 202 level). Hopefully this will become soon the 2nd book in Spanish contributed to the community