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Author Guidelines

Proposal Submission Guidelines  
Proposals are due 12/17/12 and must include:

• A brief 1-2 page cover letter providing; textbook description, statement of purpose and scope, approach and key features, book outline, total pages, intended readers, majors, or courses for this textbook.
• Your CV or resume; please include any citations for books previously published or online course works you have developed.
• The CV of your proposed Textbook Reviewer, or let us know you would like us to seek a reviewer for your textbook. Your Textbook Reviewer is eligible for an $1,000 award if they provide review and suggestions by August 30, 2013.
• If available, a sample chapter of proposed manuscript or previous published work.
• If you are applying for the extra $1K to include and assess student involvement, please submit a brief plan explaining how you will incorporate students in the production of an Open SUNY Textbook and assess their learning outcomes.

Proposal Submissions due 12/17/12
Submissions should be sent to the following via email

•    Cyril Oberlander
•    SUNY Geneseo, Milne Library
•    1 College Circle
•    Geneseo, NY 14454         Email: cyril@geneseo.edu

or submitted electronically using: http://opensuny.org/omp/index.php/SUNYOpenTextbooks/about/submissions

Proposal Selection Criteria

1. Author must be a current or emeriti teaching faculty member at a SUNY campus.
2. Quality, clarity, readability, and usefulness as a textbook for undergraduates or graduates at colleges and universities.
3. Author’s commitment to produce 50% of manuscript by June 15, 2013, and complete 100% manuscript by July 30, 2013.
4. Author’s indication of agreement that work will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ as an Open SUNY Textbook. Author owns the rights to the work, but the work can be shared and adapted with attribution.
5. Indication of an agreement with an appropriate textbook reviewer that review can be completed by August 30, 2013. We encourage active collaboration with a SUNY colleague in your field and/or a SUNY Distinguished Faculty member. Submissions without a designated textbook reviewer may be considered, if a reviewer can be found by editor.

Submissions will be reviewed by the Principal Investigator and participating libraries, and because there is a limit of 5 textbook awards possible, decisions to approve or decline proposals will be made by January 11, 2013. All authors and reviewers will be notified by Principal Investigator of the SUNY Open Textbooks once a decision has been made.

Information about Open SUNY Textbooks
Open SUNY Textbook is a SUNY IITG grant funded pilot that invites SUNY Faculty to publish high-quality open access textbooks and awards a limited number of SUNY Faculty Authors a financial incentive and a suite of free publishing services including Faculty Reviewer, editing services by librarians and others, consultation with instructional designers, and graphic design support to develop open textbooks and hybrid publications that meet critical needs in higher education.    

Textbook Manuscript Guidelines

1. Completed manuscripts of approximately 200-300 pages, or 50K -75K words, must be submitted by July 30, 2013 as a Word document (other formats such as LaTeX, RTF, HTML, etc. are acceptable), written in English, and should be accessible, engaging, and suitable for use at a college/university course.
2. Elements should include: abstract approximately 100 words, introduction, and all references cited.
3. Citations standards appropriate to the discipline e.g. APA, Chicago Manual of Style, MLA, etc.
4. Please provide high resolution images for all diagrams, illustrations, and other imagery as standalone files separate from your manuscript; jpg or png files are acceptable at 300 dpi for black & white and color photographs, 600 dpi for photos that contain labels or text.  Images will need to be uploaded or emailed to the editor if manuscript has over 5 images.
5. The author must obtain appropriate permissions for any copyrighted work used in the work.  Some assistance may be provided as needed.
6. Work will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ as an Open SUNY Textbook. Author owns the rights to the work, but the work can be shared and adapted with attribution.
7. After the reviewer submits a final review by July 31, 2013, the author will have an opportunity to revise and approve final manuscript prior to publication September 1, 2013

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• Author owns the copyright of the work and this submission has not been previously published, or you retain the copyright to create a new work from your previous publication (Provide explanation in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file is in Microsoft Word format (other formats such as LaTeX, RTF, HTML, etc. are acceptable).
  
  Completed manuscripts of approximately 200-300 pages, or 50K -75K words, must be submitted by July 30, 2013 as a Word document (other formats such as LaTeX, RTF, HTML, etc. are acceptable), written in English, and should be accessible, engaging, and suitable for use at a college/university course.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Press.
• Author is a current or emeriti teaching faculty member at a SUNY campus.
• Author agrees: Work will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ as an Open SUNY Textbook. Author owns the rights to the work, but the work can be shared and adapted with attribution.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this press agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the press right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this press.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual series for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published by the press (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this press.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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