Instructor Resources
How to Adopt This Book
This is an open textbook. That means that this book is freely available and you are welcome to use, adapt, and share this book with attribution according to the Creative Commons NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0. (Many, but not all images, illustrations, etc in this book are licensed under CC BY 4.0.)
Instructors reviewing, adopting, or adapting this textbook are encouraged to register at https://bit.ly/interest-preclinical. This assists the Open Education Initiative at Virginia Tech in assessing the impact of the book and allows us to more easily alert instructors of additional resources, features and opportunities.
Finding Additional Resources for Your Course
The main landing page for the book is https://doi.org/10.21061/pulmonaryphysiology.
This page includes:
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Links to multiple electronic versions of the textbook (PDF, ePub, HTML)
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Links to the instructor resource-sharing portal
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Link to errata document (report errors at https://bit.ly/feedback-preclinical)
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Links to other books within this series
Sharing Resources You’ve Created
Have you created any supplementary materials for use with this book such as presentation slides, activities, test items, or a question bank? If so, please consider sharing your materials related to this open textbook. Please tell us about resources you wish to share by using this form: https://bit.ly/interest-preclinical or by directly sharing resources under an open license to the public-facing instructor sharing portal https://www.oercommons.org/groups/pre-clinical-resources/10133.
Customizing This Book
The Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode on this book allows customization and redistribution which is NonCommercial, that is “not primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation.”
Best practices for attribution are provided at https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/ Best_practices_for_attribution.
This book is hosted in PDF and ePub in VTechWorks http://hdl.handle.net/10919/105410 in HTML in Pressbooks https://pressbooks.lib.vt.edu/pulmonaryphysiology and via the LibreTexts platform https://med.libretexts.org/@go/page/34378. Pressbooks and LibreTexts platforms both offer customization/remixing.
