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Pressbooks and Open Education Network (OEN)

Pressbooks offers institutional members of OEN a discount of 30% off single-institution Pressbooks enterprise networks. For more information, contact our sales team.

For those just beginning to explore Pressbooks, we offer OEN institutional members a complimentary one-year subscription to the Collaboration plan ($400 value).

You can create one digital book with unlimited contributors to find out if Pressbooks is the right tool for your open publishing program. See below for details.

Pressbooks and OEN Partnership

Pressbooks and the Open Education Network have been friends since the early days of the open education movement, collaborating in multiple ways to help the movement grow. Our partnership allows OEN members to get acquainted with Pressbooks and experience creating a book, working collaboratively with multiple users, and trying out educational features (like the ability to add interactive quizzes) that enhance your book.

Key Benefits of Pressbooks

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Ease of Use

Intuitive, user-friendly, accessible platform designed by and for educators
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Adaptability

Easily clone openly licensed content to adapt for any classroom
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Discoverability

Find and share work in the Pressbooks Directory, a catalog of 6500+ open access books
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Analytics

Use analytics to measure success through page views and other usage metrics

How OEN Members Participate

Enterprise Network Discount Offer

Contact our sales team to discuss how a Pressbooks Enterprise Network can help advance your impact with open education.

Complimentary Collaboration Plan Offer

      1. Start a free trial of Pressbooks using the institutional email address associated with your OEN membership.
      2. Email sales@pressbooks.com with the title of the book you began during your free trial.
      3. Pressbooks staff will apply a discount that covers the cost of a Collaboration subscription to Pressbooks for one year.

No credit card is required.

After one year, the book will continue to be hosted by Pressbooks in a read-only state if it has been set to “public” by the user. If users would like to continue editing the book, they will need to purchase a subscription.

More Important Details

    • Unlimited users can work on the complimentary Collaboration Plan book together
    • Books created under this partnership must have a Creative Commons license
    • Users agree to receive sales and marketing outreach emails from Pressbooks
    • Consortial & statewide members are able to access five complimentary one-year subscriptions

Learn More about Pressbooks and OER

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Pressbooks Directory

Browse 6,500+ open access books. Clone OER from the Directory to adapt for your classroom.
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User Guide

Find step-by-step guidance on how to use Pressbooks to create high-quality educational material.
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Support Forum

Ask and answer questions about Pressbooks and OER. Join a community of practice around open publishing.

Follow the steps above to get free or discounted access to Pressbooks.