The Textbook Publication Process: Strategies for Creating Open Education Resources

Authors

Rebecca M. Marrall, Western Washington University LibrariesFollow
Jenny K. Oleen, Western Washington UniversityFollow

Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

10-27-2016

Keywords

open education resources, publication, textbook

Abstract

Join the editors of the new textbook The Research Process: Strategies for Undergraduate Students as they discuss the process of creating this Open Education Resource. An edited anthology, this textbook was collaboratively written by specialists across the library, utilizing a wide range of expertise to cover a variety of topics to support undergraduate student research. The editors, Rebecca M. Marrall and Jenny Oleen, will discuss the philosophy behind publishing the textbook as an open education resource, the process of creating and editing the text, working with authors, and implementation of open access publication.

Geared towards faculty and instructors who may be interested in creating or collaborating on their own open access textbook, an electronic toolkit of resources, including templates, is provided in additional files below. This open education resource is published through Western Washington University’s Institutional Repository, Western CEDAR, a service available for all faculty authors associated with Western.

Recommended Citation

Marrall, Rebecca M. and Oleen, Jenny K., "The Textbook Publication Process: Strategies for Creating Open Education Resources" (2016). Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications. 55.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/library_facpubs/55

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Open access publishing; Textbooks--Authorship

Genre/Form

presentations (communicative events)

Type

Text

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Language

English

Format

application/pdf