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
- Templates for content to use in your book.
Contact pressbooks@library.uq.edu.au if you have any questions.
Contents
Adding content
- Pressbook admin interface overview
- Add content to your book
- Uploading an existing Word document to create your book
- Add H5P and other interactive content
- Create and add cover images
- Add links – external and internal
Examples of pages and options
- Title page example
- Acknowledgement of Country
- Peer review and an example Review Statement
- Annotation and notes
Accessibility requirements
- Accessibility checklist
- Formatting tables for accessibility
- Image tips and alt text
- Anchor links for long descriptions of images
Author and publisher responsibilities for publication
- Author and publisher responsibilities overview
- Copyright and Creative Commons
- Choose a Creative Commons Licence for your book
- Keep track of the content you use in your Pressbook
- Legal deposit of published books in Australia
- Adding your open access works to UQ eSpace
