Making Teaching & Research Public with Pressbooks

Do you want to share your scholarship with the wider public but aren’t sure how? Have you developed course materials that could become a textbook? Discover how open access tools like Pressbooks empower academic authors to transform their research and creative work into accessible digital publications that reach students, colleagues, and audiences beyond the university. 

In this session, you’ll learn how WashU’s Pressbooks platform offers a direct path to publishing, along with practical strategies for writing public-facing scholarship. We’ll highlight the kinds of projects where Pressbooks excels—from class notes and lecture materials to dissertation chapters, works-in-progress, and reflective pieces for professional peers—and how open licensing lets authors control and expand their scholarly impact.

Free and open to all, registration required for Zoom link. Lunch will be provided.

Speakers

Cadence Cordell, MLIS

Digital Publishing Manager, WashU Libraries

Tom Cox, MD

Professor emeritus and the former Rudolph L. and Mary Frances Wise Endowed Chair of pediatric anesthesiology and professor at WashU.

Christopher Schaberg, PhD

Director of Public Scholarship, WashU