Open Michigan vs Pressbooks
Open Michigan
open.umich.edu
Pressbooks
pressbooks.comSide by side
| Figure | Open Michigan | Pressbooks |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | $10/mo |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 7 |
| Spec score · Open Educational Resource Platforms | 7.4 (#19) | 8.6 (#5) |
| Accessibility | Materials published after January 1, 2017 receive an accessibility review, and Open Michigan strives for WCAG 2.0 AA compliance; it cannot guarantee that referenced content is accessible. | Pressbooks says its platform helps creators meet accessibility standards and its paid plans can produce WCAG 2.2 compliant books. |
| Audience | Open Michigan encourages scholars and students to share their work and describes its service as supporting the university community, Michigan residents, and the broader public. | Its platform serves individual creators, educational institutions, consortia, independent and university presses, and DIY creators. |
| Founded | 2007 | 2011 |
| Purpose | Open Michigan helps the University of Michigan community share research, teaching, and creative work with people beyond campus. | Pressbooks helps authors and educational institutions create, adapt, and share accessible digital books and learning materials. |
| Support | The site directs visitors to a contact form or [email protected] for accessibility requests and says it will provide an alternate format promptly. | Enterprise customers receive personalized onboarding, end-user training, troubleshooting, responsive service, and webinars. |
Plans
Pressbooks
- Free TrialFree
- Single Author$12 a month
- Collaboration$40 a month
- Single Author$120 a year
- Collaboration$400 a year
- Institutional Network$5,999 a year
- Shared Network$15,999 a year
In their own words
Open Michigan
Open Michigan is a University of Michigan initiative for sharing research, teaching and creative work beyond campus. It offers services and expertise in open educational resources, open data and open publications, and lets visitors search for material from within and outside the university for teaching and research. Its collection includes course materials, videos, lectures, student work and other educational resources from U-M faculty, students, staff and partner institutions. Nearly all of its educational resources are openly licensed for reuse under Creative Commons. The initiative can help publish syllabi, courses and learning modules, promote educational resources, and make data publicly available. It describes open data as publicly available for use, reuse and distribution, and open access scholarship as available to read online for free. Open Michigan is a partnership of the University Library and Health Information Technology and Services, and began in 2007. It notes that older resources may not work well with screen readers and many videos lack sufficient captions; remediation is underway. Hosted content published after January 1, 2017 receives accessibility reviews, with a goal of WCAG 2.0 AA compliance.
Pressbooks
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