Research Guides: Open and Affordable Educational Resources: Pressbooks at UMD

About Pressbooks at UMD

Pressbooks is a widely-used platform for editing, adopting, adapting, creating, and publishing open access online books.

Whether or not you have a Pressbooks account, you can assign a book from the Pressbooks Directory in your course.

With UMD's new Pressbooks subscription, you can also now adapt, remix, and publish your own textbooks, too!

Some benefits of Pressbooks:

Published books are added to the public Pressbooks Directory, and you can use the platform to adapt many of these for your course.
The Pressbooks editor comes with H5P for creating interactive content with HTML5.
You can give readers the ability to download PDF and EPUB versions for easier saving and printing.
UMD Pressbooks is now integrated with ELMS/Canvas, so you can embed book chapters in your course modules for easy student access.

UMD Pressbooks Site
Once we've created an account for you, click Sign In at the top right to access the editor.
Pressbooks adapted or created at UMD will appear on this page when complete.
Request a Pressbooks Account
If you're interested in a UMD Pressbooks account, schedule an intake appointment with us so we can learn more about your project needs. Accounts give you access to the editing side of Pressbooks so you can clone a book from the Directory, adapt/remix Pressbooks and other OER materials into a new book, or create and publish your own book from scratch.
Pressbooks Directory
Explore over 6,800 open access textbooks published on the Pressbooks platform. Many include interactive H5P activities to engage learners. You can also view examples co-authored by UMD faculty (hosted at other institutions): Introduction to Classical Chinese and Early Childhood Literacy.
Pressbooks User Guide
From the Pressbooks team, comprehensive, step-by-step guide that addresses common questions you may have while writing and publishing your book with Pressbooks Create.