Having trouble finding existing OER in your area that you can adopt or adapt? Consider contributing to open educational practice by publishing your OER. Below we've listed resources and tools that you can use to help you with each step of the process.

Whole of process resources

• CAUL OER Collective Publishing Workflow - this workflow was designed to guide authors and library staff through the basics of open textbook publishing in Australia

Licensing your OER

• Creative Commons Choose a license tool - use this tool to quickly work out the appropriate Creative Commons licence to assign to open educational resources you create.

Building your OER

• Open Author Tool from OER Commons - create Open Educational Resources using the OER Commons authoring tools to help you build OER, lesson plans, and courses.

Make your content discoverable

• Contribute material to MERLOT - online educational resources with their own URLs can be added to the MERLOT Collection by any MERLOT member

• Refer to Finding OER for ideas of where you could make your OER available 

UWA Library is participating in the Council of Australian University Librarian (CAUL) OER Collective, a project with other universities across Australia and New Zealand to build capacity in open textbook publishing. OER Collective members publish open textbooks on Pressbooks – see the catalogue of open books published by Collective members. Please contact the Library if you are interested in publishing an open textbook, especially adapting an existing open text, to help us prepare for potential opportunities in 2025.