Enhancing the Discoverability of Open Textbooks: The European Initiative of the LIBER Educational Resources WG (Presentation at IFLA WLIC 2023)

There are specific issues coming up when dealing with educational publications, compared to research collections: There are no consortium deals for educational content, resources come in different forms and shapes, language is a more important factor in education than it is in research, and publishers have increasingly restrictive and costly models of provision.

In this discussion at the IFLA WLIC 2023, the LIBER Educational Resources Working Group presented the status quo and the findings of our two first work packages on open textbooks in the LIBER educational resources working group:
1) Discoverability and collection curation
2) Measuring and assessing impact