Lindsey,

I can’t speak directly to what you’re talking about, but here’s some information from here:

• We don’t pay faculty to create content
• We do pay sessional instructors and graduate students who may be working on the project
• Their pay is based on an estimated number of hours and they’re paid according to the pay scale applicable to them at the university.
• We do not anyone who is not employed by or a student at our university.

I hope this is even a little bit helpful.

Heather M. Ross, BA BEd MEd

Educational Development Specialist

University of Saskatchewan

Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning 

Ph: 306-966-5327

Find open textbooks and other open educational resources on:

http://open.usask.ca

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Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 1:13 PM
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Subject: [Canadaoer] Honorariums for Open Textbooks work?

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Hi everyone,

I’m hoping to get some advice on appropriate honorariums to provide to people who work on Open Textbooks. Specifically, I’d like to provide payment to someone to write a chapter for my textbook on a subject I’m not well-versed in, and I’d also like to remunerate two to three peer reviewers of the text.

Does anyone have guidance on respectful sums for writing and peer-reviewing?

Thanks,

Lindsey

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Lindsey MacCallum (she/her)

Scholarly Publishing Librarian

Liaison Librarian to the Humanities

Mount Saint Vincent University Library

K’jipuktuk (Halifax)

Phone: (902) 457-6402

Website: http://www.msvu.ca/library

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