Council of Australian University Librarians

Consortium · Australia

• https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/
• oercollective@caul.edu.au

CAUL Open Educational Resources Collective

https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/

Email: oercollective@caul.edu.au

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The CAUL Open Educational Resources Collective provides a shared open textbook publishing platform (via Pressbooks) for participating CAUL Member institutions. It facilitates both independent publishing by authors at participating institutions, as well as collaborative, cross-institutional publishing. The Collective builds community and capacity across CAUL Member institutions to support open textbook publishing.

• Publishing activities began: 2022
• Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: English; Chinese; Japanese

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Organization (e.g., non-profit association, library consortium) that provides or supports library publishing activities on behalf of its library members
• Advisory/editorial board: Yes
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1
• Individual people: 1

Publishing Activities

• Monographs
• Open educational resources

Partners

• Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

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