Open Educational Resource Collective Administration Guide for Library Staff

This Excel spreadsheet is a supplementary resource to accompany the Open Educational Resource Collective Publishing Workflow. 

All OER Collective grant-funded books on the OER Collective Pressbooks platform are required to follow the Style Guide for Book Covers.

If your grant-funded book was published prior to the development of this guide (3 July 2023), we request that you revise your book cover according to the Style Guide but it is not required. The only element that is required is the OERC logo.

We recommend that books on the OER Collective Pressbooks platform that are not grant-funded follow the Style Guide but it is not required. 

The OER Collective Style Guide for Book Covers includes:

• Cover Templates
• OERC Colour Palette
• OER Collective Logo
• Type Area
• Cover images
• Questions?

Cover Template

The Collective provides two cover templates for members to copy and edit.

1. Access the Canva template. Click here. (Open the link, then create a copy to save and edit in your own free account.)
2. Download the InDesign files. Click here. (Open and download a copy).

The templates include the following required elements:

• OERC Logo in approved location (in any of the three colours from the colour palette).
• OERC lozenge space to enter your university logo. If you are not permitted to use your university logo, remove the lozenge.
• Space for book title and subtitle. See Type Area section below.
• Space for Author/s names. See Type Area section below.

You are not required to use the Canva or InDesign templates. You can use any software available to you, however you are required to incorporate the elements listed above in the cover design.

The following lists more detail on the colour palette, logo, and type area. 

OERC Colour Palette

OER Collective Logo

Workflow Diagram