Introduction

This book has information for creating your Open Textbooks @ UQ book, including:

• guides for how to create different types of content on the Pressbooks platform
• your responsibilities and other tasks that need to be done as part of the process
• content templates you can use in your book.

Contact pressbooks@library.uq.edu.au if you have any questions.

Contents

Start your open textbook

• Benefits of open textbooks
• Author and publisher responsibilities
• Get started with your book
• Structure your book
• Style guides and formatting

Add content

• Upload an existing Word document to create your book
• Add videos
• Add images
• Add tables
• Add H5P and other interactive content
• Embed content using iFrames
• Add links – external and internal

Create accessible content

• Accessibility checklist
• Image tips – including alt text
• Anchor link for long descriptions of complex images

Copyright

• Copyright and Intellectual Property
• Overview of copyright
• Keep track of the content you use in your Pressbook
• Creative Commons licences and licence enforceability
• Add a Creative Commons Licence to your book
• The Public Domain and CC0
• Attribute Public Domain and Creative Commons works

Prepare to publish

• Ready to publish?
• Publication checklist
• Create a book cover
• Add information about your book
• Peer Review
• Export options
• Legal deposit of published books in Australia
• Add your book to UQ eSpace

After publication

• Add your book to Learn.UQ (Blackboard)
• Analytics dashboard
• Collecting evidence of impact and engagement
• Version history
• Annotation and notes

Templates

• Title page example
• Acknowledgement of Country
• Peer review and an example Review Statement