Acknowledgements
This living guidebook is a collaborative project developed and designed by the Library’s evolving OER team of students who work with me at Concordia University Library. In developing our in-house knowledge by working with open-textbook grant recipients, we aim to inspire current and future Pressbooks users while showing them how the platform can be easy to use. Special thanks to developer Francisco Berrizbeitia for maintaining the back-end of our local instance and for his consultations with the Library’s OER team.
Special thanks to co-authors, namely Sana Ahmad for our preliminary draft, Rahil Kakkad for his work on our Modifying the Default Design section, and Zo Kopyna for their work on our Accessibility section. Thanks to Chhayhee Sok and Asifur Rahman for our HTML and CSS sections. Ariel Harlap’s contributions will appear in forthcoming sections on Stacking Learning Technologies and Third-Party Content.
Our local user guide has evolved with the students working on the Library’s OER team. It began in 2023 when Sana Ahmad designed the initial sketch in response to our OER Team discussions on how best to assist and inspire OER grant recipients. Several students on the team have tested and explored Pressbooks, which has been an essential part of our growth and process. Sana Ahmad, Rahil Kakkad, Zo Kopyna, Lena Palacios, and Arial Harlap (Centre of Teaching and Learning) helped test the platform. Between 2024 and 2025, Rahil Kakkad and Zo Kopyna contributed to our understanding of best self-publishing practices and Pressbooks’ functionalities. Zo refined the overall design for consistency and accessibility considerations, working with Rahil’s in-house platform expertise. Asifur Rahman and Noémie Sauvé contributed to copyright checking and attribution statements. Sarah Fakhri designed the cover.
- Authorship, OER Team at Concordia University Library
- Rachel Harris, Scholarly Publishing Librarian
