Publishing

Mavs Open Press offers no-cost services for UTA educators who wish to publish new or remixed OER. We provide training and technical support to help you publish your book. OER from our collection are openly licensed and offered in various formats free of charge.

• Offering access to and training for easy-to-use tools 
• Consulting on copyright questions 
• Obtaining an ISBN 
• Providing multiple access options, including web-based, PDF, EPUB, and print 
• Maximizing discoverability of your book through robust metadata and indexing 
• Preserving and archiving the digital content in perpetuity 

UTA Libraries provide no-cost access to Pressbooks for UTA faculty, staff, and students interested in creating or modifying OER. Pressbooks is an open source web-based publishing tool that allows authors to easily import content and export the resulting publication to a variety of formats, including MOBI, EPUB, and PDF. Our publications allow embedded multimedia and interactive assessment, automatic feedback, and grade integration with Canvas. Users must request access to the OER Sandbox in order to create a Pressbooks account.