Standard Operating Procedures
General Settings
Book Info
In Pressbooks, the Book Info page, found in the left hand navigation pane, is where to adjust specific public details (metadata) about your book that display on the book’s homepage and in exports. Many of the sections provided are optional and only become necessary to include as the book is shared throughout a variety of platforms and mediums.
The required Book Info fields to complete for MSMP interactive textbooks include:
- Title
- Authors
- Cover Image
- Copyright
Title
The title of each book under the MSMP umbrella should reflect the full name of each course, without the specific course number, that the book coincides with. For example, the book created for the course “VEM5321:Integrating Veterinary Medicine with Shelter Systems” is simply titled Integrating Veterinary Medicine with Shelter Systems.
Authors
The authors of each book will vary from course to course. Authors must be added as “contributors” in order to display proper attribution on the book’s home page.
For more information about the Book Info page and how to create contributors, see here.
Cover Image
A unique cover image has been designed for each MSMP course book.
Copyright and Creative Commons
A copyright notice is standard and required for all books. Pressbooks generates a default copyright notice for all book formats which will include your book’s title and the author’s names. The default copyright license when creating a new book is set to All Rights Reserved which does not allow for ease of duplication of our books.
The following information should be adjusted in the Copyright section in order to be included in the automatically generated copyright notice on the book’s home page:
- Copyright year: This will vary
- Name of the copyright holder: University of Florida
- Copyright license: CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives)
For more information about copyright and Creative Commons licenses, see here.
Social Media
Pressbooks allows the options for users to share out parts or the entire book on social media, specifically Twitter. MSMP has elected to turn this feature off on all books. To adjust this, hover over the Appearance section found in the lefthand navigation panel, then select Theme Options, then Web Options. The very first toggle button found under Web Options should be unchecked to turn this Twitter sharing feature off.
Content Pages (Parts and Chapters)
Parts and Chapters should be set in Organize to Show in Web, Exports, Title. To ensure accessibility, heading structures should be sequential; the page title will default to H1 so the first selection one should make with content is H2. Any hyperlinks should be edited to change the default setting to “Open link in a new tab”.
Export AND Sharing & Privacy
When the book is ready for sharing, Export (left-hand navigation, not the one under Setting) a digital PDF and EPUB (you may also need to select the Share setting described below since the default is No). If you edit the book at a later date, you will need to re-export both files of the book (the latest version will update automatically for download from the cover).
Global Privacy controls whether your webbook is accessible to the public. MSMP webbooks should be set to public in order for students to access our content from anywhere without the necessary step of creating individual user accounts.
All books have the Global Privacy setting automatically set to private. You must intentionally make your book public for it to be accessible to readers. You can find the Global Privacy setting and change it to public by going to:
- Settings > Sharing & Privacy from the left-hand navigation menu
- Book Visibility: Public
- Share Latest Export Files: Yes
For more information about webbooks privacy settings, see here.