WHAT ARE OPEN TEXTBOOKS?
Open textbooks are written and reviewed by university staff in most disciplines globally and are offered freely in digital form.
Open texts can benefit students and staff by supporting enhanced engagement, participation rates, and retention whilst presenting opportunities for transformative assessment practices linked to professional and industry outcomes. These openly-licensed texts make it easier to permit reuse and revision legally.
Western Open Books are also published in the Pressbooks Directory.
SEARCH OTHER OPEN TEXTBOOK DIRECTORIESLIBRARY PUBLISHING SUPPORT
Western Open Books support includes:
- Open textbook hosting
- Scoping support to identify suitable open content
- Copyright and Creative Commons advice
- Design and layout support, including textbook layout advice, book cover, H5P and other multimedia
- Funding support and coordinating of independent peer-review
- Funding support and coordinating external editing services for proofreading, structural and copy editing
- Discovery services, including DOI minting, cataloguing and indexing
- Publishing to the Library catalogue, Pressbooks Directory, Google, Google Scholar, and TROVE
- Textbook communications planning and promotion
- Evaluation support, including minor updates, errata, and impact reports for academic promotions
- Alerts to training and author Community of Practice opportunities in the CAUL OER Collective
Questions? Schedule a consultation with your School Librarian
CONTENT AND COPYRIGHT
Western Sydney University does not hold the copyright to or monitor the content created on this platform. Each user is responsible for ensuring they are copyright compliant when creating or revising content.