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CAUL Board
Strategy
OER Collective Governance Group
Governance
- Defines & allocates grants
- Provides advice on cross institutional issues
- Advises the Board
- Find more information on the Governance page.
CAUL National Office
Project management and operations
- OER Collective Project Officer provides:
- Admin support
- Manages grants
- Manages Open Educational Resources Collective (OERC) Pressbooks (PB) Network
- Manages & develops guides
- Manages Communities of Practice (CoP) & events
- Identifies advocacy opportunities
OER Collective Champions
Critical friends
Participating Institutions
Plan & implement open textbook projects
Each institution appoints interested staff to the following roles:
Institutional Contact - 1 (max. 2) per institution
- Designated contact for CAUL National Office. View the list for each institution.
- Subscribed to email list (oercontacts) & Slack
- Attends CoP meetings
- Liaises with CAUL about any issues that need attention
- Liaises with other libraries around collaborative book arrangements
- Ensures institution’s publishing standards are met
- Provides copyright/IP & licensing advice
- Supports the grants process which includes signing grant EOIs & liaising with CAUL about invoicing
- Submits book shell request form
- Submits request to publish form
- Arranges Memorandum of Understanding between author & institution (template can be provided)
Library Staff & Other Support Staff - At least 1 per institution
- Subscribed to the email list (oerlibrary) & Slack
- Attends CoP meetings
- Allocated Pressbooks Administrator role for any projects on OERC PB platform
In consultation with institutional contact, one or more staff members to act as designated contact for authors. This may include:
- Supporting authors to manage book project
- Inputting content into Pressbooks
- Assisting their understanding of copyright/IP & licensing requirements
- Communicating any issues with institutional contact
- Facilitating peer review process
- Other responsibilities as required
Academic Authors
- Manages book project (with library staff support as required)
- Develops content and inputs into Pressbooks
- Understands copyright and licensing requirements
- Communicates any issues with library staff contact
- Subscribed to email list (oerauthors) & Slack
- Attends CoP meetings
- Other responsibilities as agreed with library staff
- Allocated Pressbooks Editor/Author role for project on OERC PB platform
If you have any questions about your role, please contact oercollective@caul.edu.au.
