Pressbooks is web-based book production software used by authors and educational institutions around the world to create textbooks, monographs, syllabi, white papers, and more. The platform is designed to make creating or adapting existing content easier, with an online editing interface similar to using WordPress CMS that can output multiple formats including a website, ebooks, and PDFs.
Open Publishing
Openly licensed textbooks and OER are powerful tools for education, allowing users to build upon each other’s work. With Pressbooks you can adapt an existing textbook to tailor for your specific course, add interactive content, or create new resources. The Idaho State Board of Education funds Pressbooks for Idaho universities to help support access and affordability in higher education. University of Idaho’s Pressbooks instance is supported by the Library.
The Library supports initiatives in Open Access and Open Education to make an impact across campus and the world, helping to reduce the costs and barriers associated with accessing educational materials and research. These initiatives benefit Vandals as well as the greater Idaho, national, and international scholarly communities.
Publish with Us
Published works can be browsed in our U of I Pressbooks Catalog. You can learn more about the possibilities in our short introduction “Create, Clone, or Adapt your own Pressbook”, the Pressbooks User Guide, or the CUNY Pressbooks Guide (we hope to establish a similar local guide soon!).
To get started using Pressbooks at U of I to publish your work or adapt an existing OER, please contact Open Publishing Librarian Leesa Love (llove@uidaho.edu).