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Open textbooks at Oregon State university: A case study of new opportunities for academic libraries and university presses
Sutton, Shan C. and Chadwell, Faye A.

Published2014
JournalJournal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication
Volume 2, Issue 4, Pages 34-48
CountryUnited States, North America

ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION This article describes a joint open textbook publishing initiative begun in 2013 between Oregon State University (OSU) Libraries and Press and the Open Educational Resources and Emerging Technologies unit of Oregon State University's Extended Campus.

DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM This initiative combines the Open Access values and project management resources of OSU Libraries, the book production (peer review, editing, design, marketing) expertise of OSU Press, and the technological development skills of the Open Educational Resources and Emerging Technologies unit. Authored by OSU faculty and focused across some of the University's signature areas, the initiative seeks to establish a sustainable model for research libraries and university presses to collaborate with each other and other partners to publish open textbooks that will benefit students on both economic and educational levels. The article analyzes how open textbooks fit within the emerging library publishing movement

Keywords academic libraries · open access publishing · Oregon State university · project management · textbook publishing

ISSN2162-3309
RefereedYes
RightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
DOI10.7710/2162-3309.1174
URLhttps://jlsc-pub.org/articles/abstract/10.7710/2162-3309.1174/
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