As more and more resources are being made available online, the CIOS
Open Text Project contributes to that trend in an important way. The
project is a way to maintain the availability of important texts while
ensuring the widest possible readership. We believe that making texts
openly available not only keeps our scholarship alive and dialogue
active, but provides an avenue through which students can become
acquainted with the seminal works of our discipline. Additionally, the
project can make a difference internationally by making important
disciplinary works available to developing and growing communication
departments and programs overseas, programs that may not otherwise have
the library resources to gather such materials. Making texts publicly
available also contributes to the development and maintenance of our
community of communication / journalism / rhetoric scholars who may not
have library access to disciplinary works.
Academic departments and libraries can support this project by
joining the CIOS
institutional affiliates program. Individual scholars can support
the CIOS by becoming an
associate member.
Books available in the Open Text Project