UC Berkeley becomes first university to offer PressbooksEDU to entire campus community | UC Berkeley Library News

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Summary:

"Want to share your research with the world? Or are you finally ready to publish that elusive novel? For staff, faculty, and students at UC Berkeley, publishing a book just became easier. UC Berkeley has added PressbooksEDU to its suite of publishing platforms that scholars can use to develop and release their works. Anyone with an @berkeley.edu email address can use the tool to write, edit, and publish digital books that are accessible by people across the globe. This makes UC Berkeley the first university to make PressbooksEDU available universitywide. A new site, UC Berkeley Open Books, will feature openly licensed books by UC Berkeley authors. Fast, flexible, and free PressbooksEDU is the latest publishing platform supported by the Library to help researchers bring their digital scholarship to life. Other platforms include Share LaTeX, Overleaf, and Scalar, and even more, such as Editoria, are on the way. PressbooksEDU is a terrific and critical addition to this suite of offerings, said Maria Gould, the Library’s scholarly communication and copyright librarian, who is overseeing the implementation of Pressbooks. “With PressbooksEDU, UC Berkeley scholars can develop digital projects or scholarship of any length,” Gould said, “and have those projects hosted online as a web book, and export them into a variety of digital formats,” including EPUB, MOBI, PDF, XML, and others. PressbooksEDU is simple to use. Because it is based on WordPress open-source blogging software, it is easy and infinitely flexible for a variety of digital projects, from creating a chapter to writing a novel or textbook — and everything in between. Quickly becoming the preferred tool for educators and writers publishing open books and other content, PressbooksEDU offers a number of features to support open access and accessibility...."

Link:

http://news.lib.berkeley.edu/pressbooks

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » ab1630's bookmarks

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oa.new oa.usa oa.publishing oa.platforms oa.authors oa.books oa.u.california oa.hei

Date tagged:

04/04/2018, 15:20

Date published:

04/04/2018, 11:20