Publish a book

Leddy Library supports faculty and students in publishing e-books through our Library Open Publishing Service.

Books are published on one of two platforms: Open Monograph Press (OMP) or PressBooks. We can help you decide on the best platform for your book.

Explore our hosted books on OMP and PressBooks.
 

Responsibilities

There are responsibilities for both the Leddy Library and the book authors, which will be articulated in a Memorandum of Understanding.
 

What we do

The Leddy Library:

• Provide access to the shared platform for a new OA books 
• Provide overview training for how to use the platform and workflow options 
• Leddy’s Scholarly Communication Librarian will work with the author(s) to establish the new title and advise on best practices 
• We can help with requesting E-ISBN registration, via Library & Archives Canada 
• Issue Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) for your book, via CrossRef, which we subscribe to 
• We can register your new work in the Directory of Open Access Books 
• We ensure that digital books are harvested globally to other search engines and open access aggregators, such as Google and OpenAire 
• Ensure long-term preservation of the digital content and public access via OMP via OCUL’s Ontario Library Research Cloud 

What authors are responsible for

Book authors:

• Ideation, structure, content, indexing (if desired) 
• Marketing and publicity for the work amongst your academic community 
• Illustrations, images, text layout 
• Leddy Library needs to be acknowledged as a partner in the publication of the book, in acknowledgements or front matter 
• The system produces works in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF)  

Submit a proposal

We look forward to assisting you with your publishing project.

Please contact us for a consultation at: scholarship@uwindsor.ca

 

Resources

Below are a handful of informative resources for faculty new to Open Educational Resources:

• Frequently Asked Questions on OER (by the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Regina) - A list of FAQs on OER and Open education
• Faculty OER Toolkit (by BCcampus) - An introductory guide to faculty interested in incorporating Open Educational Resources (OER) into their teaching practice
• Self-Publishing Guide (by BCcampus) - A reference for writing and self-publishing an open textbook
• OER in Tenure and Promotion (by DOERS3 Collaborative) - A series of tools to support the recognition of open education work in the tenure and promotion process