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{{OER Policy
|OER Policy Title=S.B.1052 California Open Education Resources Council
|OER Policy URL=http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1051-1100/sb_1052_bill_20120208_introduced.pdf
|Description=(PDF) The bill requires the California Open Education Resources Council, which the bill establishes, to determine a list of the 50 most widely taken lower division courses in the public postsecondary segments. The bill requires the council to establish a competitive request-for-proposal process in which faculty members, publishers, and other interested parties will apply for funds to produce, in 2013, 50 high-quality, affordable, digital open source textbooks and related materials, meeting specified requirements.
|Author=Darrell Steinberg, Elaine Alquist
|OER Policy Date=2012/09/27
|OER Policy Status=Current
|Language code=en
|OER Policy Jurisdiction=Province / State
|Country=United States
|OER Policy Institution=California legislature
|Tag=Law, California
|License short name=copyright
}}
All textbooks created will be licensed CC BY.

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http://www.thetextbookguru.com/2012/09/27/oer-a-push-toward-mainstream-gov-jerry-brown-signs-bill-into-law

http://20mm.org/infographic-open-source-impact.html

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