BCcampus open textbooks now discoverable in the Pressbooks Directory
by BCcampus IT Support
Dear BCcampus Pressbooks User,
BCcampus Open Education is pleased to announce the inclusion of its two Pressbooks instances—BCcampus Open Publishing<https://opentextbc.ca/> and the British Columbia/Yukon Open Authoring Platform<https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/>—to the Pressbooks Directory<https://pressbooks.directory/>, launched by Pressbooks<https://pressbooks.com/> as part of their Open Source project<https://pressbooks.org/> last December. This directory provides an index of thousands of books published across dozens of Pressbooks networks around the world. Books can be searched by keywords, subject matter, license, and more.
Starting today, users can find BCcampus open textbooks alongside thousands of other public books in the Pressbooks Directory. Learn more on the BCcampus blog<https://bccampus.ca/2021/02/18/bccampus-oer-is-now-discoverable-in-pressboo…>.
All books listed in BCcampus Pressbooks instances are included in this directory providing they:
* are marked as Public<https://opentextbc.ca/pressbooks/chapter/make-book-public/>
* contain 1,500 words or more
* do not include the word 'Test' or 'Demo' in the book's title
If an author does not want their book included in the Pressbook Directory, it can be excluded from the directory<https://networkmanagerguide.pressbooks.com/chapter/how-to-opt-out-of-the-pr…> by the book's administrator. For more information, see the Pressbooks Directory<https://opentextbc.ca/pressbooks/chapter/pressbooks-directory/> chapter in the Pressbooks Guide.
Sincerely,
BCcampus IT Support and Open Education Team
BCcampus | Learning. Doing. Leading.
support(a)bccampus.ca | www.bccampus.ca
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