Open Educational Resources Collective Publishing Workflow

The checklist below is written for library staff working with authors to publish a new OER.

In the Publish stage of an OER project, you’ll need to:

1. Understand the benefits of DOIs for OER
2. Get a DOI for your OER
3. Add a DOI to your OER in Pressbooks.
4. Understand the benefits of ISBNs for OER
5. Get an ISBN for your OER
6. Add an ISBN to your OER in Pressbooks

7. Apply a Creative Commons licence in Pressbooks
8. Write and add a copyright statement in Pressbooks
9. Write and add an adaptation statement in Pressbooks (if adapting an OER)

10. Fill out book information for your OER in Pressbooks referring to the Publish in Pressbooks guide
11. Export downloadable book files in Pressbooks
12. Submit a Request to Publish form
13. Make your OER public in Pressbooks (once CAUL Office has confirmed you are ready to proceed)
14. Organise print on demand copies for your OER

14. Find examples of MARC records for OER
15. Create a downloadable MARC record for your OER

16. Understand legal deposit obligations for publishers in your country
17. Understand legal deposit obligations for publishers in your state or territory
18. Learn how to deposit with Australia’s National eDeposit (NED) service
19. Get help with legal deposit obligations

20. Create a record for your OER in your institutional repository

21. Understand marketing for OER
22. Understand marketing roles
23. Determine your OER’s audience
24. Brand your OER
25. Market and promote your OER
26. Share and distribute your OER
27. Create metadata for your OER

Adapted from  ‘Checklist’ in Authoring Open Textbooks by Melissa Falldin and Karen Lauritsen licensed under a CC BY 4.0 licence.