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This is one of many support resources<\/a> from BCcampus Open Education. It is designed to supplement the central resource: the Self-Publishing Guide<\/em><\/a>.<\/div>\r\nWelcome to the BCcampus Open Education Print-on-Demand Guide. <\/em>This guide was created to fill the demand for a support resource that covers the printing of open textbooks.\r\n\r\nBCcampus Open Education<\/a> began in 2012 as the B.C. Open Textbook Project with the goal of making post-secondary education in British Columbia more accessible by reducing students\u2019 costs through the use of open textbooks and other OER. BCcampus<\/a> supports the post-secondary institutions of British Columbia as they adapt and evolve their teaching and learning practices to enable powerful learning opportunities for the students of B.C. BCcampus Open Education is funded by the\u00a0British Columbia Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills<\/a>, and the Hewlett Foundation<\/a>.\r\n\r\nOpen educational resources (OER) are defined as teaching, learning, and research resources that, through permissions granted by the copyright holder, allow others to use, distribute, keep, or make changes to them. We consider this publication \u2014 along with our guides, webinar slide decks, and other support materials \u2014 as a type of OER that trains faculty, staff, and students how to build, customize, and use open textbooks.\r\n\r\nThe BCcampus Writing Guidelines for Articles and Web Content<\/a> and BCcampus Open Education Style Guide<\/a>, along with the attached style sheet [Word file]<\/a>, were referenced during the copy editing and proofreading phases of this guide.\r\n\r\nTo ensure that standard barriers are addressed for maximum access by as many readers as possible, this guide meets the criteria laid out in the\u00a0Checklist for Accessibility<\/a> \u2014 including an Accessibility Statement<\/a> \u2014 and is flagged as \u201cAccessible\u201d in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection.\r\n\r\nThis guide does not come with an index. Instead, use the search field located in the top-right of each page in the online version to locate a specific topic.\r\n
If you find an error in this guide, please report it using the Report an Error<\/a> form. For other feedback or comments, contact BCcampus OpenEd Help<\/a>.<\/div>","rendered":"
This is one of many support resources<\/a> from BCcampus Open Education. It is designed to supplement the central resource: the Self-Publishing Guide<\/em><\/a>.<\/div>\n

Welcome to the BCcampus Open Education Print-on-Demand Guide. <\/em>This guide was created to fill the demand for a support resource that covers the printing of open textbooks.<\/p>\n

BCcampus Open Education<\/a> began in 2012 as the B.C. Open Textbook Project with the goal of making post-secondary education in British Columbia more accessible by reducing students\u2019 costs through the use of open textbooks and other OER. BCcampus<\/a> supports the post-secondary institutions of British Columbia as they adapt and evolve their teaching and learning practices to enable powerful learning opportunities for the students of B.C. BCcampus Open Education is funded by the\u00a0British Columbia Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills<\/a>, and the Hewlett Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Open educational resources (OER) are defined as teaching, learning, and research resources that, through permissions granted by the copyright holder, allow others to use, distribute, keep, or make changes to them. We consider this publication \u2014 along with our guides, webinar slide decks, and other support materials \u2014 as a type of OER that trains faculty, staff, and students how to build, customize, and use open textbooks.<\/p>\n

The BCcampus Writing Guidelines for Articles and Web Content<\/a> and BCcampus Open Education Style Guide<\/a>, along with the attached style sheet [Word file]<\/a>, were referenced during the copy editing and proofreading phases of this guide.<\/p>\n

To ensure that standard barriers are addressed for maximum access by as many readers as possible, this guide meets the criteria laid out in the\u00a0Checklist for Accessibility<\/a> \u2014 including an Accessibility Statement<\/a> \u2014 and is flagged as \u201cAccessible\u201d in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection.<\/p>\n

This guide does not come with an index. Instead, use the search field located in the top-right of each page in the online version to locate a specific topic.<\/p>\n

If you find an error in this guide, please report it using the Report an Error<\/a> form. For other feedback or comments, contact BCcampus OpenEd Help<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"front-matter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-79","front-matter","type-front-matter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/printondemand\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/printondemand\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/printondemand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/front-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/printondemand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/printondemand\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/printondemand\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/79\/revisions\/1248"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/printondemand\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/79\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/printondemand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/printondemand\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter-type?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/printondemand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/printondemand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}