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In Summer 2020, the Open Education and Publishing (OEP) Program purchased an institutional subscription to the online publishing platform Pressbooks. Pressbooks is a book production software that enables the creation and distribution of open educational resources.

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This institutional network gives access to educational features, institutional branding and ongoing training for users across the institution. A Pressbooks network allows you to:

Showcase and distribute the collection of open textbooks and other resources the institution creates on an OER platform and a catalogue branded to the university
Create digital textbooks and course materials that can be made available to students free of charge and easily accessible online
Produce open textbooks in many digital formats and in print
Make engaging course content that incorporates embedded media, interactive content like H5P quizzes and more
Create open resources that follow best practices for accessible content development
Clone any openly licensed public webbook from other Pressbooks network directly into your own network to adapt, remix and redistribute it
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Research Methods in Psychology

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) English

Author(s): Rajiv S. Jhangiani, I-Chant A. Chiang, Carrie Cuttler, Dana C. Leighton

Subject(s): Psychology, Research methods: general, Social research and statistics

Last updated: 18/08/2020

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.

Scientific Inquiry in Social Work

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) English

Author(s): Matthew DeCarlo

Subject(s): Research methods: general, Social work

Publisher: Open Social Work Education

Last updated: 18/08/2020

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)

Ryerson Open Textbook Authoring Guide

CC BY (Attribution) English

Author(s): Ryerson University

Publisher: Ryerson University

Last updated: 17/08/2020

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.