A person annotates their Open Access ebook through Athabasca University Press’s online reader.

Our New Interactive Reading Platform

AU Press is excited to announce an innovative and interactive way to read our freely accessible ebooks! As a leader in open access publishing, AU Press is constantly striving for innovation and this new reading platform offers the accessibility and interactivity that we believe will help define the future of open access.

The reading platform that offers readers the ability to annotate, share, and comment on all our open access books. Readers can share their annotations publicly or keep them private. The platform allows readers to adjust font size, change to dark mode, and read on a variety of devices. We are able to incorporate audio, video, and supplementary documents to enrich our books. The result is interactive monographs that will encourage new ways of thinking about long-form scholarship.

What can you do on our new reading platform?

Read

  • Control type size, margins, and font.
  • Change to dark mode for easier reading.
  • Read on a variety of devices.

Annotate

  • Log in to annotate and highlight.
  • List and print your annotations for easy reference.
  • Select passages and generate citations.

Engage

  • Post your annotations publicly or keep them private.
  • Share passages and books easily on social media.

Discover

  • Explore additional resources such as video, images, source material, and more.
  • Search entire books.
  • Click through citations to online sources.
[book cover] 25 Years of EdTech Book

Use the platform by clicking “read online” on the latest AU Press publications. Our most recent titles are 25 Years of Ed Tech by Martin Weller and The Art of Communication in A Polarized World by Kyle Conway! Our entire list will be available in this format soon. We hope you’ll enjoy the flexibility, additional functionality, and enhanced reading experience that this new tool provides.

We are grateful for the support and enthusiasm of the Manifold Scholarship team, the innovative group of university press colleagues behind this platform.

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