Introducing the BCcampus Open Education Self-Publishing Guide

The BCcampus Open Education Self-Publishing Guide is a practical reference for writing and publishing an open textbook. This guide provides details on the preparation, planning, writing, and publishing of an open textbook as well as the importance of copy editing and proofreading. Copyright, open copyright licenses, and the differences between citation and attribution are discussed. Most of us don’t have a publishing background, so we are offering what we have learned throughout the process as common-sense tips to get the job done, in a realistic fashion. Using the BCcampus Open Education Authoring Guide as a framework, all of the internal processes used and experiences gathered by BCcampus Open Education project managers during the first phases of the B.C. Open Textbook Project have been added. Sections about the adaptation and adoption of open textbooks and how to use Pressbooks have been removed and added to separate guides. https://bccampus.ca/2018/02/20/introducing-the-bccampus-open-education-self-publishing-guide/