This presentation by Arianna Cheveldave and Kaitlyn Zheng was originally made public on May 19, 2022, for the Library Publishing Forum 2022.

Since 2012, BCcampus Open Education has funded and published open educational resources for the post-secondary system in British Columbia, Canada. Over the years, BCcampus has developed a suite of support resources for open access publishing, including the Getting Started Guide; the BCcampus Open Education Publishing Style Guide; the Accessibility Toolkit; the Self-Publishing Guide; and the Pressbooks Guide.

In this session, we will discuss some of the publishing tasks that are simplified by these guides, such as communication of author responsibilities, stylistic consistency, and technical accessibility. We will give a brief overview of each of these guides and demonstrate how they may be used by publishers and authors.

In a nutshell:

• The Getting Started Guide includes timelines, workflows, and best practices for OER authors.
• The BCcampus Open Education Publishing Style Guide defines style guidelines, standard CSS workarounds, and templates for front and back matter.
• The Accessibility Toolkit contains practical information on making web content accessible.
• The Self-Publishing Guide provides details on the preparation, planning, writing, publication, and maintenance of an open textbook.
• The Pressbooks Guide explains how to write and edit an OER in the WordPress-based platform Pressbooks.

The open licences on our support guides allow anyone to use, modify, and share them. We encourage other publishing initiatives to adopt and adapt these guides.