Unit 5 For the Commons

Contribute to the commons

As you develop your own system for creating open textbooks within your local publishing program, you will create resources that are helpful to others. Please consider openly licensing your resources. This not only supports your colleagues, but also contributes to a vision of a more open higher education landscape. It is also a core value for members of the Open Textbook Network Publishing Cooperative. 

Examples from Unit 5 may include:

1. Marketing questionnaire for authors, to engage them in marketing the book and to inform a marketing plan once the open textbook is published.
2. Example of an open textbook marketing plan and/or case study.
3. Examples of open textbook print cover designs and how they were conceived.
4. Example of an imprint brand being implemented among a series of open textbooks.

Contact Karen Lauritsen (klaurits@umn.edu) if you have created a resource for this unit you would like to share.