OpenPress is Wheaton College’s Pressbooks instance. Pressbooks is a simple book production software that makes it easy to write, develop, and share your ideas and to publish open educational resources and open textbooks, scholarly monographs, fiction and non-fiction books, white papers, syllabi, and more. OpenPress allows exports in multiple formats, including accessible EPUBs and PDFs specially designed for print-on-demand or digital distribution.
If you are Wheaton faculty or staff and are interested in creating or adapting an open textbook or OER on OpenPress, please go to the Getting Started page.
To learn more about OpenPress and using the platform to edit/create/revise or adopt an open textbook or resource, please view the Wheaton College OpenPress Guide.
You can find short video tutorials and webinars about features and product updates on the Pressbooks YouTube channel. If you’re just getting started with Pressbooks, this short video series will guide you.
The Pressbooks support page also contains links to other useful support resources and has answers to some commonly asked questions. Pressbooks also maintains a community forum where you can ask and answer questions of other users.
Finally, if you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to reach out to the OpenPress administrators at librarians_research@wheatoncollege.edu.