About Pressbooks
Pressbooks is an online publishing platform used by educational institutions around the world as well as authors and publishers. It is built on WordPress, and if you have used WordPress in the past, Pressbooks should feel familiar to you.
Pressbooks allows you to create content once and publish it in many different formats including as a website, PDF documents (print and digital), and EPUB (usable in most e-reading applications and devices). It also allows you to include multimedia and interactive content in the resource, like H5P activities and embedded video and audio.
Get Started
If you are a member of KPU, you can log in using your KPU credentials by choosing the “Connect Via KPU” option when signing in.
The 5 Step Guide to Making a Book with Pressbooks provides basic instructions for creating a book. Use our Pressbooks Book Template to import templates for front and back matter content.
If you require further assistance, KPU’s Open Publishing Suite (OPUS) is happy to provide support for all OER projects at all stages of publishing.
Territorial Acknowledgement
Books in the KPU Pressbooks Catalogue are published by Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and our campuses are located on the unceded traditional and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), qic̓əy (Katzie), SEMYOME (Semiahmoo), scə̓waθən (Tsawwassen), qiqéyt (Qayqayt), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), and the lands of the qw̓ɑ:nƛ̓ə̓n̓ (Kwantlen) First Nation, which gifted its name to this university. Resources from the lands in their territories were used in the publication of this book.
We share the information, knowledge, research results, etc. in our Catalogue under open licenses as a way of practicing reciprocity: giving back a portion of what we took in a way that we hope will have a positive impact on Indigenous students, KPU, and the wider Indigenous and non-Indigenous community. As part of our commitment to the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action [PDF], we recognize our responsibility to address and reduce ongoing systemic colonialism, oppression, and racism that Indigenous Peoples continue to experience.