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If you have any questions about your role, please contact oercollective@caul.edu.au.
CAUL Board
Strategy
OER Collective Advisory Group
Advisory
- Defines grants & selection criteria for separate Grant Review Panel to reference during EOI selection
- Provides advice on cross institutional issues
- Advises the Board, chaired by Service Lead
- Find more information on the Governance page.
CAUL Office (Platform Provider)
Project management & operations
- OER Collective Senior Coordinator:
- Manages Open Educational Resources Collective (OERC) Pressbooks Network
- Manages grants
- Leads OERC Working Group
- Manages & develops guides
- Supports Communities of Practice (CoP) & events
- Identifies advocacy opportunities
- Provides administrative support
OER Collective Working Group
Critical friends and operations
Participating Institutions (Publisher)
Plan & implement open textbook projects
Find a list of participating institutions on the CAUL OER Collective Pressbooks site.
Each institution appoints interested staff to the following roles:
OER Collective Coordinator - 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 sessions
- Liaises with CAUL about any issues needing 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)
- Is accountable for signing off on book quality & copyright compliance prior to publication
Library Staff & Other Support Staff - At least 1 per institution
- Subscribed to the email list (OERLibrary) & Slack
- Attends CoP sessions
- Allocated Pressbooks Administrator role for any projects on OERC PB platform
In consultation with institutional OERC Coordinator, one or more staff act as designated contact for authors. This role 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
- Subscribed to email list (OERAuthors) & Slack
- Attends CoP sessions
- Allocated Pressbooks Editor/Author role for project on OERC PB platform
- Manages book project (with library staff support as required)
- Develops content and inputs into Pressbooks
- Adheres to copyright and licensing requirements
- Communicates any issues with library staff contact
- Other responsibilities as agreed with library staff
Communities of Practice (CoP)
OER Collective CoP
- Community-led, Co-Convened by elected community members
- Aligns with CAUL Groups Framework
- Bi-monthly CoP sessions
Institutional Administrator CoP
- CAUL-facilitated forum for knowledge sharing about Pressbooks administration
- For PB Premium opt-ins & own PB instance
- Quarterly meetings & OERAdmin email list
