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Learn about Pressbooks

Section 1: About Pressbooks

The way people create and share knowledge is rapidly changing. Pressbooks makes it easier to unlock your full storytelling potential with interactive digital books and resources.

Whether you’re an author looking to launch your next book or an educational institution looking to improve student success, Pressbooks can help you create, adapt, and share accessible high-quality digital content with ease.

Pressbooks is an open source book publishing software.[1]

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Pressbooks is headquartered in the Mile End area of Montreal, Quebec.

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Learn more about Pressbooks.

Section 2: How to Use Pressbooks

Getting Started with Pressbooks Webinar: Learning Objectives

Users who attend this session will be able to:

  • Find and clone openly licensed content from the PB Directory
  • Find and use appropriate support resources
  • Create a new book
  • Import content from Pressbooks books and Word documents
  • Create & organize new parts & chapters
  • Add basic content to their book (textboxes/headings, footnotes, glossary terms, images, video)
  • Preview changes before publishing and view/restore revision history
  • Add collaborators to their book with appropriate roles

 

Key Takeaways: Why use Pressbooks?

  • Easily create digital books and other materials with an accessible platform to support modern publishing cycles and workflows
  • Find, copy, and adapt existing content using the Pressbooks Directory, our free searchable catalog of thousands of open access books
  • Infuse your content with multimedia and interactive activities, like videos from YouTube, quizzes created with H5P, and social annotation using Hypothesis
  • Ensure your content meets accessibility standards and easily localize it to meet the unique needs of your community
  • Share your content via a variety of export formats, and boost discoverability through the Pressbooks Directory, EBSCO, Ex Libris, and more
  • Easily collaborate with multiple other authors to co-create interactive, digital content

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  1. Pressbooks is available on Github: https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks ↵
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