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Pressbooks User Guide

Pressbooks is the versatile, user-friendly publishing platform educators rely on to create, adapt, and share accessible, interactive, web-first books. They partner with organizations to support open education initiatives, institutional publishing program

Terms of Use

  1. Use of theTAMU-CC Pressbooks platform is governed by the Pressbooks.com Terms of Service.
  2. The copyright status of any content created or edited using the TAMU-CC Pressbooks platform is governed by the TAMU System Ownership of Intellectual Property and Tangible Research Property
  3. The TAMU-CC Pressbooks platform is intended for the creation of Open Educational Resources (OER) for use in a TAMU-CC course. Exceptions may be granted on a case-by-case basis.
  4. Authors agree to publish any content they create using the TAMU-CC Pressbooks platform under a Creative Commons license. They must also provide files that are accessible for reuse (word or PDF). For specialized circumstances that may require a more restrictive license, please contact oer@tamucc.edu.
  5. Authors agree to comply with all copyright and other intellectual property laws.
  6. Authors agree to maximize the accessibility of any content you create on the TAMU-CC Pressbooks platform. Learn what you can do in the Accessibility & Universal Design chapter of the Pressbooks User Guide.
  7. A copy of any content created or edited using the TAMU-CC Pressbooks platform will be posted in the TAMU-CC Repository in order to preserve a stable version and make the content more discoverable to search engines. TAMU-CC Pressbooks titles are also automatically linked in Library Quick Search in order to increase discoverability for TAMU-CC students.
  8. You must have an active TAMU-CC affiliation to use the TAMU-CC Pressbooks platform. The book administrator must be a faculty member of TAMU-CC, though students and faculty from other institutions may serve as coauthors.

Adapted from the University of Houston Pressbooks Terms of Service and UTSA Pressbooks Terms of Service