Glossaries

Pressbooks has the capability to create a glossary of terms. These terms can be highlighted in your text and made more interactive. Pressbooks will automatically create the glossary at the back of your text. Use the Glossary Tracking Sheet to develop your glossary and definitions.

If you wish to create a glossary or list of terms in each chapter rather than the end of the text, please add it to your manuscript just as you would any other text and indicate with a heading that this is a glossary or list of terms. These terms will not be interactive but can be hyperlinked to the definition.

Examples

Click on the hyperlinked term to jump to the glossary at the end of the chapter. Click on the term in bold to see the definition.

Sample paragraph from text with hyperlinked glossary terms at the end of the chapter

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation, and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. OER form part of ‘Open Solutions’ alongside Free and Open Source software (FOSS), Open Access (OA), Open Data (OD), and crowdsourcing platforms.^[1]

Sample paragraph from text with hyperlinked glossary terms at the end of the text

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. OER form part of ‘Open Solutions,’ alongside Free and Open Source software (FOSS), Open Access (OA), Open Data (OD), and crowdsourcing platforms.

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Crowdsourcing – The practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers

Medium-a channel or system of communication, information, or entertainment

Public Domain-The realm embracing property rights that belong to the community at large, are unprotected by copyright or patent, and are subject to appropriation by anyone.

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