Open Educational Resources (OER): Create OER

Source for OER and open access (OA) textbooks, including some published by Marshall University and West Virginia faculty, teachers, and authors.

Presentation slides and toolkit from October 2021 state OER Community of Practice Meeting discussing OER creation, tools, publishing options, rights, and much more. Presentation created by Monica Brooks, EdD, Marshall University, and Gena Chattin, MA, MSLS, West Virginia Library Commission

Designed to meet the needs of the WVU and WV scholarly community, the DPI is a collaborative among WVU Libraries, the WVU Press, the WVU Humanities Center, and the WVU English Department. Its vision is to provide consulting services, open access and non-profit publishing and hosting platforms and services, workshops on scholarly communication, and internships.

Open textbooks on a variety of academic topics supported by the Digital Publishing Institute and West Virginia University Libraries.

Create and edit PDF documents

Allows you to create OER as a website based on a variety of templates. Requires you to create a free account. You can download this as a “Common Cartridge,” which downloads as a .imscc file that can theoretically be imported into an LMS (i.e. Canvas, etc. but NOT Google Classroom).

Create documents and save to PDF or print to PDF format

Create documents and save to PDF or print to PDF format

Create document files and save as PDF or print to PDF

A tool for creating textbooks in a variety of downloadable document and eBook formats.

An open book creation and hosting platform designed with the needs of OER creators in mind.

Can generate files in eBook (Kindle or ePub) or PDF format. Has educational license pricing.

Write HTML, PDF, ePub, and Kindle books with R Markdown. Requires comfort using R Markdown or willingness to learn. The Bookdown package is an open-source R package.

Build centralized, collaborative documents such as product or project documentation, knowledge bases, etc. in addition to online textbooks.

Allows you to create and share documents containing live code, visualizations, equations, text, etc.

Online, subscription-based design website that includes some clip art and stock photos

Free and open-source image editor

Free and open-source vector graphics editor

Free and open-source vector graphics editor

This lengthy listing of Open Access publishers is a part of the Open Access Directory hosted by the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. Note: Each publisher may interpret "open" differently, so be clear on what rights and licenses are offered.

A practical reference guide for those wanting to adapt, remix, or revise existing open materials into a version better suited to their needs.

This open textbook is a guide for anyone involved in the production of open textbooks in higher education and K-12.

A selection of guides and toolkits to help OER creators and adopters get started and get going.

A five-step guide for those who want to modify an open textbook. Step-by-step instructions for importing and editing common open textbook file and platform types are included.

A Canvas course that covers creating open textbooks, building a publishing program, project management, editing, design, production, marketing, and several existing publishing pathways. Hosted by the University of Minnesota.

The REBUS Community platform guides open textbook projects through the publishing workflow and helps connect collaborators.

Make sure the OER you create are truly available to all users. This open textbook gives you a wealth of best practices for creating accessible OER.

A framework to provide a systematic and easy-to-use method to evaluate the accessibility of OER resources.