{"id":17,"date":"2016-08-15T19:49:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T23:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/authorsguide\/front-matter\/introduction\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T16:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:35:01","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"front-matter","link":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/authorsguide\/front-matter\/introduction\/","title":{"raw":"About this Guide","rendered":"About this Guide"},"content":{"raw":"This guide provides readers with an introduction to creating an open textbook or customizing an existing open textbook using Pressbooks software. Readers will also find production tips, accessibility and copyright guidance, and input on creating supplementary materials.\r\n\r\nThe original B.C. Open Textbook Authoring Guide<\/a><\/em> (archived version) stated that this book is ever evolving. We hope others can reuse parts of our adaptation to produce other institutional authoring guides so this work can continue to evolve.\r\n\r\nContact digitalscholarship@macewan.ca<\/a> with questions about this specific resource.\r\n
\r\n\r\nThis guide is an adaptation of\u00a0the Ryerson Open Textbook Authoring Guide<\/a> created by Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). Toronto Metropolitan University's work is an adaptation of the Open Textbook Authoring Guide<\/a><\/em> (archived version),\u00a0and its predecessor, the B.C. Open Textbook Authoring Guide<\/a><\/em> (archived version) created by BCcampus, with some material also incorporated from the Pressbooks User Guide<\/a> and two other BCCampus open books, the BC Open Textbook Adaptation Guide<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> and the BC Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit<\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\nEach of these works is licensed under CC-BY 4.0<\/a>, which allows others to adapt content with attribution given to its original creators.\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"

This guide provides readers with an introduction to creating an open textbook or customizing an existing open textbook using Pressbooks software. Readers will also find production tips, accessibility and copyright guidance, and input on creating supplementary materials.<\/p>\n

The original B.C. Open Textbook Authoring Guide<\/a><\/em> (archived version) stated that this book is ever evolving. We hope others can reuse parts of our adaptation to produce other institutional authoring guides so this work can continue to evolve.<\/p>\n

Contact digitalscholarship@macewan.ca<\/a> with questions about this specific resource.<\/p>\n

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This guide is an adaptation of\u00a0the Ryerson Open Textbook Authoring Guide<\/a> created by Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). Toronto Metropolitan University’s work is an adaptation of the Open Textbook Authoring Guide<\/a><\/em> (archived version),\u00a0and its predecessor, the B.C. Open Textbook Authoring Guide<\/a><\/em> (archived version) created by BCcampus, with some material also incorporated from the Pressbooks User Guide<\/a> and two other BCCampus open books, the BC Open Textbook Adaptation Guide<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> and the BC Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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