RRCC Library Services
Lakewood Campus (2nd Floor East)
Arvada Campus, Learning Commons
Phone: 303.914.6740
Email: library@rrcc.edu
Pressbooks Publishing Tutorial
Pressbooks User Guide – Simple Book Production (CC BY): Written and published by Pressbooks, this guide will walk users through all aspects of Pressbooks and assist with finding answers to questions about publishing books within the platform.
Images adapted from Pressbooks User Guide by Book Oven Inc. (Pressbooks.com) and licensed under a CC BY License,
Share OER
With Creative Commons licenses, you keep your copyright but share your creativity. CC licenses allow others to copy and distribute your work, provided they give you credit and follow the conditions you specify.
Decide on which license you want to use. Do you wish to release your work under Creative Commons license or in the public domain?
Review the difference between these two copyright terms:
- By releasing your work under a Creative Commons license, you retain ownership while allowing others to use your work (as long as they attribute it to you) without needing to ask permission of you directly.
- By releasing your work in the public domain, your copyright ownership is waived. It is as if you are GIVING your work to the public as a gift. Users may still cite you when adopting your work, but they are not required to do so.
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The Creative Commons License Chooser helps you select a CC license that matches the conditions you want. It also provides you with a snippet of code for your website to signal which license you’ve chosen
enclosed content adopted from "Sharing OER" by Open Washington
Be sure that the work is eligible to be shared. In order to release your work with a CC license or in the public domain, your work should be cleared from all copyright issues. To do so, your work should be one or a combination of the following types:
- your original work,
- built from open resources,
- built from the public domain,
- built from copyrighted work that you obtained permission to use, or
- combination of above works
Note: For any third party materials, whether openly licensed or copyrighted, those materials need to be attributed as not governed by the CC license you chose for your work, but under different terms and by different authors).
The CCCS LOR
The CCCS LOR is the home of academic learning objects, multidisciplinary student success materials, and employee resources created by instructors and staff of the 13 Colorado community colleges. See the box below for instructions on how to submit educational materials within the CCCS LOR.
Images
Consider Flickr or Wikimedia Commons. As you upload your image to these repositories, you will see the option to select the terms of use. Here are instructions, if you need help in uploading an image to your Flickr account and marking it with a CC license.
Videos
Consider YouTube or Vimeo. Here are instructions, If you need help in uploading a video to your YouTube account and mark it with a CC license.
Colorado Community College System (CCCS) Learning Object Repository (LOR)
The video below provides detailed instructions for users on how to submit, edit, and delete educational materials within the Colorado Community College System (CCCS) Learning Object Repository (LOR).