Office Hours: Publishing Textbooks vs. Monographs & Journals
Channel: Rebus Community
Date: 2018-08-30

Special guests at this month's session of the Rebus Community and Open Textbook Network Office Hours included: David Alan Rech (President/CEO, Scribe Inc.), Chealsye Bowley (Community Manager, Ubiquity Press), and Danielle Mead Skjelver (Course Chair & Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Maryland University College).

The publishing process for academic and educational materials broadly consists of acquisition, creation (writing and editing), review, formatting, and release. However, each of these pieces play out differently depending on the resource being made. In this Office Hours session, we took a look at the unique aspects that go into creating an open textbook, compared with journal and monograph publishing processes that might be more familiar to faculty. Our guests shared their experiences working in academic and educational publishing, and identified areas of overlap and convergence.

The audio transcript of this session is available on the Rebus Community website: https://about.rebus.community/2018/08/august-office-hours-publishing-textbooks-vs-monographs-journals-audio-transcript/