Open Educational Resources

Publishing OER

As the final step of the process, be sure to let the bookstore and registrar know that you are using a ZTC material for your course, and that their records should indicate that to student clearly and conspicuously. 

You can start by submitting the OER to the CCBC M.O.S.T. Commons. To do that you need to follow these steps:

1. Create an account on the M.O.S.T. Commons
2. Determine what format you want to share the content in. (You can either upload a file with a description or submit a link to an externally hosted OER, like Pressbooks or CourseArc.
   1. If you are adopting a textbook that is already discoverable in a repository, consider adding your endorsement or checking to see if the author has an adoption report that you can fill out.
3. Request to join the Group for your academic school, and post the newly published OER there.

If you are using Pressbooks, your work, once you have set the book to be public, will be viewable in the Pressbooks Directory. This work will be live for one year before the edition is moved off our platform to make space for new works. Your work will then be stored as a PDF in M.O.S.T. Commons. 

You may also want to upload your OER to other repositories. Some repositories will accept your OER right away, but others like the Open Textbook Network require that your textbook be adopted at other institutions before they share it in their repository.

If you want to learn more about publishing in other OER repositories, just contact the OER Librarian, Shaune Pyle.