Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) has been actively engaged in publishing open textbooks (primarily adapting existing works with some original works) using the Pressbooks platform for 4 years. We currently have 120 titles in our Pressbooks catalogue with more in production. Our open textbook publishing program differs from many post-secondary institutions using a guided process with the Copyright Office managing production and publishing to ensure copyright compliance and legislated accessibility requirements are built into the creation process. This collaborative guided approach has provided insight into common misconceptions held by academic creators and where most of our authors need support to create copyright compliant open textbooks.
