Book Elements
5 Metadata and Book Info
The following is the information that needs to be added to the “Book Info” page in Pressbooks for all BCcampus-published books. For more information, see Book Info Page in the Pressbooks Guide.
- *Title: Required (provided by author)
- *Short Title: Optional. Use only in the case of long titles that may be cut short in running heads in PDF.
- *Subtitle: Optional
- *Authors: Required
- Editors: Optional[1]
- Translators: Optional
- Reviewers: Optional
- Illustrators: Optional
- *Contributors: Optional
- *Publisher: BCcampus
- *Publisher City: Victoria, B.C.
- Publication Date: Required[2]
- On-Sale Date: Ignore
- Ebook ISBN: Required for books that are not continuously updated like directories.[3]
- Print ISBN: See Ebook ISBN.
- DOI: Ignore
- Language: English (Canada)
- *Cover Image: Upload. This should be a book front cover, not just a stand alone image. (Will appear in eBook files, not PDF)
- Primary Subject: Select a subject. (Subjects will help books be more findable in the Pressbooks Directory.
- Additional subjects: Optional, but recommended
- Copyright Year: Year of publication
- Copyright holder: Who holds copyright? May be the authors, may be the institution, may be BCcampus. Depends on contract. However, if the copyright holder is different from the authors, leave this field blank (it’s a Pressbooks bug).
- *Copyright licence: CC BY (The standard for BCcampus-published books, although exceptions may be made.)
- *Copyright notice: copy the below text into the HTML editor and edit to fit the book:
If the Resource is an Original Creation
© YEAR COPYRIGHT-HOLDER NAME
The CC licence permits you to retain, reuse, copy, redistribute, and revise this book—in whole or in part—for free providing the author is attributed as follows:
<div class="textbox"><em>NAME OF TEXTBOOK(link title to PB homepage for the book)</em> by AUTHOR is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0 licence</a>.</div>
If you redistribute all or part of this book, it is recommended the following statement be added to the copyright page so readers can access the original book at no cost:
<div class="textbox">Download for free from the <a href="https://collection.bccampus.ca/">B.C. Open Collection</a>.</div>
<strong>Sample APA-style citation (7th Edition):</strong>
<div class="textbox">Lastname, F. M., & Lastname F. M. (Year). <i>Title of book in sentence case</i>. Publisher. URL</div>
<strong>Cover image attribution:</strong>
<div class="textbox">"Library At Trinity College" by George Hordan has been designated to the public domain (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>).</div>
<strong>Ebook ISBN:</strong>
<strong>Print ISBN:</strong>
Visit <a href="http://open.bccampus.ca/">BCcampus Open Education</a> to learn about open education in British Columbia.
If the Resource is a Major Adaptation
© 2021 Copyright-Holder's Name for the Adaptation
<em>Full Title of Adapted Resource</em> was adapted from <em>Title of Original resource</em> © Original Copyright Holder. It was shared under a Memorandum of Understanding with BCcampus to be adapted as an open education resource (OER).
The Creative Commons licence permits you to retain, reuse, copy, redistribute, and revise this book—in whole or in part—for free providing the author is attributed as follows:
<div class="textbox"><em>Name of the Resource (link title to PB homepage for the book)</em> by Author(s) of the Resource is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0 licence</a>.</div>
This adaptation includes the following changes and additions which are © 2021 by Adapting Author(s) and are licensed under a CC BY 4.0 licence:
<ul>
<li>Provide a list of high level changes rather than small details.</li>
<li>For example, things like: rearranged/renamed chapters, updated examples and research, changed to Canadian spelling, etc.</li>
</ul>
A chapter-by-chapter list of changes can be accessed here: [link to the back-matter section that lists changes in more detail.]
OR
More specific attribution statements are provided at the end of each chapter to specify what content was adapted from where. Chapters without attribution statements are original content by Adapting Author.
If you redistribute all or part of this book, it is recommended the following statement be added to the copyright page so readers can access the original book at no cost:
<div class="textbox">Download for free from the <a href="https://collection.bccampus.ca/">B.C. Open Collection</a>.</div>
<strong>Sample APA-style citation (7th Edition):</strong>
<div class="textbox">Lastname, F. M., & Lastname F. M. (Year). <i>Title of book in sentence case</i>. Publisher. URL</div>
<strong>Cover image attribution:</strong>
<div class="textbox">[Insert attribution/licence info for cover]</div>
<strong>Ebook ISBN:</strong>
<strong>Print ISBN:</strong>
Visit <a href="http://open.bccampus.ca/">BCcampus Open Education</a> to learn about open education in British Columbia.
- Book tagline: Optional. Will appear on PB homepage. (Provided by author)
- Short Description: Required. A short paragraph introducing the book. Will appear on PB homepage. (Provided by author)
- Long description: Optional. Will appear with metadata on PB homepage.
- Institutions: Select the institutions for all authors.
- Rest of fields: Optional.
- If the book is an edited collection where the editors should be acknowledged as the main creators, then add editors to the "Author" field and add "Edited By:" to the beginning (see Intro to Tourism as an example). ↵
- Date the book goes live. ↵
- ISBNs can be generated by the Open Education team once the book has been cloned into opentextbc.ca (see "Take Care of Final Details) in Production Process. ↵
