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Based on my years teaching research methods, this is the book I’ve wanted to write and use.  It builds on the work of educators in other disciplines by including greater detail on multi-paradigmatic research methods and new content specific to the social work discipline.  It is the first textbook produced by Open Social Work Education (http://www.opensocialworkeducation.com)

This adaptation constitutes the fourth edition of this textbook, and builds upon the second Canadian edition by Rajiv S. Jhangiani (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) and I-Chant A. Chiang (Quest University Canada), the second American edition by Dana C. Leighton (Texas A&M University-Texarkana), and the third American edition by Carrie Cuttler (Washington State University) and feedback from several peer reviewers coordinated by the Rebus Community. This edition is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World is adapted from a work produced by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative. Though the publisher has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution, this adapted edition reproduces all original text and sections of the book, except for publisher and author name attribution.

This brief guide is designed to accompany face-to-face instruction during a 90 minute workshop.

This edition of Pressbooks Guidelines for the University of Minnesota was adapted from the UC Berkeley Pressbooks Guidelines, written by the Office of Scholarly Communication Services, UC Berkeley Library, and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

This Pressbooks Guide does not replicate information provided by the Pressbooks Userguide published by Pressbooks.com. Instead, in parts and chapters laid out to mimic the steps an author might take to create or modify an open textbook in Pressbooks, it redirects readers to pertinent chapters in the Pressbooks Userguide, supplements it with additional information, and includes instructions specific to post-secondary faculty and staff working in British Columbia and the Yukon.

Each section of this guide begins with a list of topics covered in its chapters. Key terms, specific to Pressbooks and its features, are set in bold and defined in the text body as well as summarized in the Glossary. Links to chapters in other BCcampus Open Education guides and toolkits are also included to complement the Pressbooks material. 

This book is a practical guide to adapting or creating open textbooks using the PressBooks platform. It is continually evolving as new information, practices and processes are developed. The primary audience for this book are faculty at Ryerson University, Ontario who are participating in the eCampusOntario Open Content Initiative. However, there may be content within this book that is useful to others working on similar Open Educational Resource initiatives.