NERS 2021 - Pressbooks Directory
The Pressbooks Directory (https://pressbooks.directory/) indexes over 2000 open access books created by educational institutions. As many of these are not indexed separately, it would be great if the contents of the directory could be included in the Alma Community Zone and/or the Central Discovery Index.
NERS 2021 Request ID: 7539
Lachlan Young
shared this idea
Hello,
Following a discussion with the provider and review of their linking, we unfortunately cannot proceed to ingest this content as there is currently insufficient linking support.
Should the situation change, we would be more than happy to reconsider and reopen this request.
Best,
Rael
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Tamar Ganor
commented
Dear Steel,
Thank you for your response.
My name is Tamar Ganor and I am replacing Rael as content PM.
Let me check this internally and get back to you.
Kind regards,
Tamar -
Steel Wagstaff commented
Hi Rael,
I'm the product manager for Pressbooks. Someone recently made me aware of this thread. I haven't had any discussion with anyone at Ex Libris, but would be interested in discussing what you describe as our 'insufficient linking support' and ways that we might be able to improve that if that's a blocker for discovery. Are you interested in discussing further or directing me to the problem you encountered? -
Lucy
commented
When will Pressbooks be added as open access content?
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Lucy
commented
Yes, please add PressbooksEDU to the Alma Community Zone as well as the CDI.
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Ryan Edwards
commented
Hello,
I second Lachlan's idea to add the Pressbooks Directory of 2000 plus open access books to the Alma Community Zone (CZ) as well as the Central Discovery Index (CDI).
One example of a new Pressbook textbook, created collaboratively by some of the California Community Colleges is "Introduction to College Research": https://introtocollegeresearch.pressbooks.com/ This textbook could be used for information literacy classes and workshops. The textbook also includes supplementary Canvas modules available for import/download in the Canvas Commons: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/c365c982ba214696ae1b10afe73e6551?shared
Thank you,
Ryan
Ryan Edwards
Systems Librarian
West Los Angeles College Library
West Los Angeles College OER Liaison
Primo Product Working Group: https://el-una.org/working-groups/primo/leaders/
California Community Colleges Discovery and User Experience Work Group: https://cccnext.jira.com/wiki/spaces/CLSPP/pages/800096361/Discovery+and+User+Experience+Work+Group