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About Mavs Open Press<\/h1>\r\nCreation of this resource was supported by\u00a0Mavs Open Press<\/a>, operated by the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries (UTA Libraries). Mavs Open Press\u00a0offers no-cost\u00a0services for UTA faculty, staff, and students who wish to openly publish their scholarship. The Libraries' program provides human and technological resources that empower our communities to publish new open access journals, to convert traditional print journals to open access publications, and to create or adapt open educational resources (OER). Resources published by Mavs Open Press are openly licensed using Creative Commons licenses<\/a> and\u00a0are offered in various e-book formats free of charge. Optional print copies may be available through the UTA Bookstore or can be purchased through print-on-demand services, such as Lulu.com<\/a>.\r\n

About OER<\/h1>\r\nOER<\/a> are free teaching and learning materials that are licensed to allow for revision and reuse. They can be fully self-contained textbooks, videos, quizzes, learning modules, and more. OER are distinct from public resources in that they permit others to use, copy, distribute, modify, or reuse the content. The legal permission to modify and customize OER to meet the specific learning objectives of a particular course make them a useful pedagogical tool.\r\n

About Pressbooks<\/h1>\r\nPressbooks is a web-based authoring tool based on WordPress, and it is the primary tool that Mavs Open Press (in addition to many other open textbook publishers) uses to create and adapt open textbooks. In May 2018, Pressbooks announced their\u00a0Accessibility Policy<\/em><\/a>, which outlines their efforts and commitment to making their software accessible.\r\n

Contact Us<\/h1>\r\nInformation about open education at UTA<\/a> is available online. If you are an instructor who is using this OER for a course, please let us know by filling out our OER Adoption Form<\/a>. Contact us at pressbooks@uta.edu<\/a> for other inquires related to UTA Libraries publishing services","rendered":"

About Mavs Open Press<\/h1>\n

Creation of this resource was supported by\u00a0Mavs Open Press<\/a>, operated by the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries (UTA Libraries). Mavs Open Press\u00a0offers no-cost\u00a0services for UTA faculty, staff, and students who wish to openly publish their scholarship. The Libraries’ program provides human and technological resources that empower our communities to publish new open access journals, to convert traditional print journals to open access publications, and to create or adapt open educational resources (OER). Resources published by Mavs Open Press are openly licensed using Creative Commons licenses<\/a> and\u00a0are offered in various e-book formats free of charge. Optional print copies may be available through the UTA Bookstore or can be purchased through print-on-demand services, such as Lulu.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About OER<\/h1>\n

OER<\/a> are free teaching and learning materials that are licensed to allow for revision and reuse. They can be fully self-contained textbooks, videos, quizzes, learning modules, and more. OER are distinct from public resources in that they permit others to use, copy, distribute, modify, or reuse the content. The legal permission to modify and customize OER to meet the specific learning objectives of a particular course make them a useful pedagogical tool.<\/p>\n

About Pressbooks<\/h1>\n

Pressbooks is a web-based authoring tool based on WordPress, and it is the primary tool that Mavs Open Press (in addition to many other open textbook publishers) uses to create and adapt open textbooks. In May 2018, Pressbooks announced their\u00a0Accessibility Policy<\/em><\/a>, which outlines their efforts and commitment to making their software accessible.<\/p>\n

Contact Us<\/h1>\n

Information about open education at UTA<\/a> is available online. If you are an instructor who is using this OER for a course, please let us know by filling out our OER Adoption Form<\/a>. Contact us at pressbooks@uta.edu<\/a> for other inquires related to UTA Libraries publishing services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":["mavs-open-press"],"pb_section_license":"cc-by"},"front-matter-type":[19],"contributor":[77],"license":[50],"class_list":["post-17","front-matter","type-front-matter","status-publish","hentry","front-matter-type-preface","contributor-mavs-open-press","license-cc-by"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/onlinelearning\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/onlinelearning\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/onlinelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/front-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/onlinelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/onlinelearning\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/onlinelearning\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/17\/revisions\/61"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/onlinelearning\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/17\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/onlinelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/onlinelearning\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter-type?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/onlinelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/onlinelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}