Using VIVA’s Pressbooks
Anyone can view public books on VIVA’s Pressbooks. You do not need an account on the site. To search OER available on VIVA’s Pressbooks, review the main catalog or the sub-catalogs, which contain focused collections of resources on VIVA’s Pressbooks related to support or author.
Pressbooks or accounts on VIVA’s Pressbooks are restricted to those who are at a VIVA Member Institution. If a book has an author/editor at a VIVA Member Institution, they may also invite those at non-VIVA institutions to be a part of that book.
VIVA’s Pressbooks has mediated registration or books creations; in other words, only VIVA Publishing staff can create new Pressbooks or accounts on the site. To request the creation of a book or account on VIVA’s Pressbooks, complete the Request a VIVA Pressbooks form.
About VIVA’s Pressbooks
VIVA’s Pressbooks contains Open Educational Resources (OER) and other open resources created by VIVA Open Grant Recipients, authored by education professionals at VIVA member institutions, and/or intended for use at VIVA member institutions.
About VIVA
VIVA is the academic library consortium of Virginia, serving 70 of the non-profit academic libraries, including all 39 public colleges and universities, 30 independent universities, and the Library of Virginia. Through cooperative and shared collection development, resource sharing, open and affordable programs, education and training opportunities, and strategic initiatives, VIVA directly supports academic institutions across the state in providing access to high quality academic resources for students and faculty at Virginia institutions. To learn more about VIVA, visit the VIVA website.
About Pressbooks
Pressbooks is simple book production software. You can use Pressbooks to publish textbooks, scholarly monographs, syllabi, fiction and non-fiction books, white papers, and more in multiple formats including:
- MOBI (for Kindle ebooks)
- EPUB (for all other ebookstores)
- designed PDF (for print-on-demand and digital distribution)
Pressbooks is used by educational institutions around the world as well as authors and publishers.