0602 Textbook

Textbooks

A textbook is a type of educational material. You are not obliged to publish it as open access. However, keep in mind that if you publish a textbook on a closed (subscription-based) platform, the University of Utrecht cannot always provide access. Your students will then have to pay to access the book.

To make your teaching materials widely available, we recommend that you publish them yourself as Open Educational Resources (OER). Did you know that you can also share knowledge clips, PowerPoint presentations, assignments and other teaching materials in this way? The library can help you with this.

Self-publishing

What is self-publishing?

  • You publish on an open platform. 
  • You do not use a publisher or the services offered by a publisher.
  • Your publication is immediately open access.
  • This route is free for authors.
  • The publication has an open licence (CC BY)

How do I follow this route?

Upload the textbook to Edusources (via SURFsharekit) or create one in WikiWijs (Dutch website). You can also publish your book as a collection in an external repository such as Knowledge Commons or Zenodo. Both are indexed in Google Scholar and assign DOIs to every upload; this ensures your publication is visible and discoverable. You can choose which open licence to publish under, preferably CC BY.