The Library is a member of the CAUL Open Educational Resources Collective. This provides a shared open textbook publishing platform for participating institutions. We facilitate independent publishing by authors; collaborative, cross-institutional publishing; and build communities and capacity across institutions to support open textbook publishing. 

The Collective membership provides:

• publishing of up to two open textbooks on the shared Pressbooks platform per year
• access to training, guides and templates
• access to communities of practice – for library staff, and academic authors
• opportunity for academic authors to apply for DIY Textbook Author Grants.

Watch the video below for an overview of the collective model.

• View detailed information about the Collective model
• Watch 6 min video on the Collective

Interested in open textbooks? Like support to publish an open textbook in your discipline? Or to write a chapter in one?

The Caul Open Educational Resources Collective supports academics in creating and publishing their own open textbooks. The Collective provides:

• access to training, guides and templates
• access to two communities of practice - one for library staff, and one for academic authors
• the opportunity for academic authors at their institution to apply for DIY Textbook Author Grant

The Collective has 42 participating New Zealand and Australian universities and aims to

1. Build infrastructure and capacity, and achieve tangible outcomes to move the OER agenda forward at a national level.
2. Facilitate collaborative authoring and publishing of open textbooks in targeted priority disciplines, with a preference for the inclusion of local and/or indigenous content.
3. Allow Member institutions to publish their own textbooks in disciplines of their choosing.

We welcome hearing from all academic authors who want to be involved or just want to find out more. 

• Academics can take part in the OER Collective without being lead author on a textbook (which would be a large commitment). Contributing to other textbook projects is fine, for example by writing or reviewing a chapter. The Collective is hoping to encourage this. One strategy will be that we’ll introduce new participants in the Authors Community of Practice to the email list and encourage them to share information about their book projects.

Contact

Philip Worthington is the University’s main contact for the OER Collective. Contact Philip if you have questions or would like to start creating an open textbook. We’d like to talk with you in more detail about your open textbook ideas.