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In the previous chapters of this toolkit, you have accessed existing text, image, audio and video OER from the Web, to create and re-purpose OER. You have so far retained your OER in your personal digital library (PDL), in your own computer. This is accessible only to you. You can create a concept map of your PDL automatically using Freeplane, and use this map to navigate your PDL.

In the previous chapters of this toolkit, you have accessed existing text, image, audio and video OER from the Web, to create and re-purpose OER. You have so far retained your OER in your personal digital library (PDL), in your own computer. This is accessible only to you. You can create a concept map of your PDL ''automatically'' using Freeplane, and [[Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS/Publishing OER|use this map]] to navigate your PDL.

However if you publish your OER on the world wide web, it will be available to anyone, any time. Publishing content on-line is making available a copy of your personal digital library on the the web, which is like a global digital library.   

However if you publish your OER on the world wide web, it will be available to anyone, any time. Publishing content on-line is making available a copy of your personal digital library on the the web, which is like a global digital library.   

''The power of OER is in its re-use,'' for various learning and teaching needs. It is important for you to publish the OER you create, so that it is available to others for re-use or re-purposing, to sustain a ''virtuous cycle of receiving-giving'' ('''access->create->publish->access'''). It is also important to access existing OER, revise them to make them more valuable (including by improving their accuracy or comprehensiveness or by contextualising them or by translating them), and publish the revised OER. Such re-purposing and publishing is also a ''virtuous cycle'' ('''access->re-purpose->publish->access''').   

''The power of OER is in its re-use,'' for various learning and teaching needs. It is important for you to publish the OER you create, so that it is available to others for re-use or re-purposing, to sustain a ''virtuous cycle of receiving-giving'' ('''access->create->publish->access'''). It is also important to access existing OER, revise them to make them more valuable (including by improving their accuracy or comprehensiveness or by contextualising them or by translating them), and publish the revised OER. Such re-purposing and publishing is also an important ''virtuous cycle'' ('''access->re-purpose->publish->access'''). 

 

You can publish your OER, either in popular repositories, depending on their format or purpose, or in a single place on the web.   

===Objectives===

===Objectives===

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to   

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to   

==== Publishing your text OER on an OER repository ====

==== Publishing your text OER on an OER repository ====

There are OER repositories for uploading your text resources. [https://wikieducator.org/Main_Page WikiEducator] is an OER repository specially for sharing educational [https://www.academia.edu/ Academia.edu] is a repository for sharing articles and academic papers.     

There are OER repositories for uploading your text resources. [https://wikieducator.org/Main_Page WikiEducator] is an OER repository specially for sharing educational resources. [https://www.academia.edu/ Academia.edu] is a repository for sharing articles and academic papers.     

[http://Slideshare.net SlideShare] is a popular web site where you can upload your presentation slides and text documents in [https://linkedin.com/help/slideshare/answer/53682 different formats].   

[http://Slideshare.net SlideShare] is a popular web site where you can upload your presentation slides and text documents in [https://linkedin.com/help/slideshare/answer/53682 different formats].   

[[File:COL - Uploading a slide presentation on SlideShare.png|left|thumb|450x450px|Image 1 - Uploading a slide presentation on SlideShare]]

[[File:COL - Uploading a slide presentation on SlideShare.png|left|thumb|450x450px|Image 1 - Uploading a slide presentation on SlideShare]]

We have uploaded our slide presentation on our [https://slideshare.net/GurumurthyKasinathan/learning-digital-story-telling SlideShare] account.  You too can create your account on [http://Slideshare.net SlideShare] and upload your slide presentation and your text document. You should specify '''Public''<nowiki/>' in the 'Privacy' settings, to make the document available to all (image 1).  

We have uploaded our slide presentation on our [https://slideshare.net/GurumurthyKasinathan/learning-digital-story-telling SlideShare] account.  <nowiki/>(image 1). It is important to note here that even if you are contributing your resource to a repository that is not OER, you may be able to make your resources OER, for anyone to access. Remember always to specify the license of the OER you upload. If you do not specify any license, then the default license 'all rights reserved' will apply, which will make your content a 'non-OER'. You can [[Teachers' toolkit for creating and re-purposing OER using FOSS|choose]] from a variety of [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Creative Commons licenses].     {{clear}}

It is important to note here that even if you are contributing your resource to a repository that is not OER, you may be able to make your resources OER, for anyone to access. Remember always to specify the license of the OER you upload. If you do not specify any license, then the default license 'all rights reserved' will apply, which will make your content a 'non-OER'. You can choose from a variety of [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Creative Commons licenses].

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==== Contributing to collaborative text OER ====

==== Contributing to collaborative text OER ====

You can also contribute your content to [https://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia], the most visited OER in the world. You can either create a new web-page or edit an existing page on Wikipedia.  This encyclopedia has grown to be the most referred-to encyclopedia, by the collaborative efforts of a world-wide community of Wikipedia editors. Contributing to Wikipedia is even more important if you are creating an OER in a language other than English. Most languages of the world, especially languages spoken in the developing countries, are not well represented on Wikipedia (see [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias List of Wikipedias]). Since Wikipedia is a popular encyclopedia, if you could regularly contribute your OER to Wikipedia, it would be useful to many others. You will need to follow the [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Ten_Simple_Rules_for_Editing_Wikipedia|editing guidelines]] of Wikipedia.

You can also contribute your text OER to [https://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia], the most visited OER in the world. You can either create a new web-page or edit an existing page on Wikipedia.  This encyclopedia has grown to be the most referred-to encyclopedia, by the collaborative efforts of a world-wide community of Wikipedia editors. Contributing to Wikipedia is even more important if you are creating an OER in a language other than English. Most languages of the world, especially languages spoken in the developing countries, are not well represented on Wikipedia (see [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias List of Wikipedias]). Since Wikipedia is a popular encyclopedia, if you could regularly contribute your OER to Wikipedia, it would be useful to many others. You will need to create your account on Wikipedia follow its [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Ten_Simple_Rules_for_Editing_Wikipedia|editing guidelines]].

 

If you have created text OER which is not available in the Wikipedia page for the relevant topic, you should add the content to the existing page, or create a new page, if a page for the topic does not exist.

[https://www.oercommons.org/ OER commons] is another repository where you can join and create text OER, enriched with media OER; this site also allows you to build lessons and modules.  

[https://www.oercommons.org/ OER commons] is another repository where you can join and create text OER, enriched with media OER; this site also allows you to build lessons and modules.