Publishing your Open Educational Resource
Once you’ve created or adapted an Open Educational Resource (OER), the next step is to make it discoverable, accessible, and sustainable. Hosting your work in a reliable platform ensures it remains visible, properly licensed, and easy for others to find and reuse.
OER authors can publish their work in more than one repository—in fact, we encourage sharing across multiple platforms to reach the widest audience.
The Libraries can help you identify the right venue for your project and guide you through the publishing process.
Recommended Platforms
OER Commons (UNC System Hub)
The UNC System OER Hub, hosted in OER Commons, is a shared space for instructors across the system to publish, share, and collaborate on OER materials.
It connects educators through communities of practice and helps preserve and showcase OER for long-term access.
Key Features
- Connect with faculty across UNC System institutions
- Upload or author resources directly in the Hub
- Organize content by subject or discipline
- Ensure long-term discoverability and preservation
Pressbooks
Pressbooks is a professional publishing platform designed for creating digital textbooks, guides, and other long-form open materials.
NC State faculty who participate in the Alt-Textbook Project can publish through Pressbooks with Libraries support.
Key Features
- Create interactive, accessible open textbooks
- Import or remix existing OER from the Pressbooks Directory
- Embed images, videos, and H5P activities
- Integrate gradable activities into Moodle
- Increase visibility through the Pressbooks Directory
Manifold
Manifold is a digital publishing platform that empowers educators to create attractive, accessible, and interactive OERs. NC State faculty have access to Manifold through the Libraries’ membership to the Open Education Network.
Key Features
- Flexible publishing for OER, course materials, and scholarly/open-pedagogy projects.
- Repository to host, organize, and showcase open collections.
- Public & private reading groups for courses, cohorts, and communities.