Work With Us
Are you a teacher, researcher or professional staff member? Are you working on a publication? RMIT Open Press offers additional author support for scholarly publishing, including open textbooks. For more information, fill in the expression of interest form below.
If you’re considering open textbooks for your course, options include:
Search the Pressbooks directory for potential texts
Evaluate an existing text for your course
Customise an open text, or,
Develop a new open text
The RMIT Library can assist with locating, licencing, publishing, promoting, and evaluating the impact of your open text.
Find Open Textbooks
Browse the RMIT Open Textbooks catalogue to find open textbooks by RMIT authors.
Looking for open textbooks to adopt or adapt? Visit Pressbooks Directory and browse thousands of free resources which you can use in your course as they are. Or, you can clone books found on the Directory to your Pressbooks network where they can be edited, adapted, and enhanced with interactive activities.
Take a look at RMIT authored open textbooks published in partnership with Informit Open:
Mechanical Design: Design of a Compressed Air Supply System for a Factory by Chris Dixon and Mladenko Kajtaz; a collaboration between Informit, RMIT and RMIT University Library.
Partnerships with the Community: Social Work Field Education during the Covid-19 Pandemic by Ronnie Egan, Betty Haralambous and Patrick O’Keeffe; a collaboration between Informit, RMIT and RMIT University Library.
Need Help?
The RMIT Library can assist with your open textbook project. Contact us or fill in your details below for an initial discussion.
Consult the Pressbooks User Guide, check out the short tutorial & training videos on the Pressbooks YouTube channel, or request direct assistance from our Pressbooks Network Manager.