In Summer 2020, the Open Education and Publishing (OEP) Program purchased an institutional subscription to the online publishing platform: Pressbooks. Pressbooks is a book production software that enables the creation and distribution of open educational resources. Over the years, the Government of Saskatchewan has provided funding for the use of the Pressbooks publishing platform. In April 2025, all of the Pressbooks books from Saskatchewan’s major postsecondary institutions came together as the new SaskOER Pressbooks Catalog. This development is important for better serving students, educators, and the public by making our quality openly licensed educational resources (OER) more widely available and accessible. We are grateful for the Government of Saskatchewan’s support in creating and publishing quality open educational resources.
Product Highlights
A Pressbooks network allows you to:
- Showcase and distribute the collection of open textbooks and other resources the institution creates on an OER platform and a catalogue branded to the university
- Create digital textbooks and course materials that can be made available to students free of charge and easily accessible online
- Produce open textbooks in many digital formats and in print
- Make engaging course content that incorporates embedded media, interactive content like H5P quizzes and more
- Create open resources that follow best practices for accessible content development
- Clone any openly licensed public webbook from another Pressbooks network directly into your own network to adapt, remix and redistribute it
- Benefit from reliable network performance and security
Who is eligible to use the University of Regina Pressbooks Platform?
Permanent and term-appointment faculty and academic staff members can request a user account to gain full access to Pressbooks by contacting the U of R OEP Program Manager Shuana Niessen at Open.Textbooks@uregina.ca.
If you are an APT staff member and if a Pressbooks user account would be helpful for your University projects, you may request a user account with your supervisor’s support. Your supervisor should contact the U of R OEP Program Manager to request an account on your behalf.
Graduate students are also eligible for a user account upon nomination by their faculty supervisor.
If you have questions about accessing and using the University of Regina Pressbooks, contact Open.Textbooks@uregina.ca.