Pressbooks - Adding other users to your Pressbook (UW-Madison)

This document provides information on how to give other users authoring access to a Pressbook you administer.

To make collaborations easier, Pressbooks allows book administrators to give other people editing access to their books. These instructions outline that process, assuming that the person to be added already has a UW-Madison Pressbooks account. Details to request a Pressbooks account are outlined in this document: Pressbooks - Overview (UW-Madison).

To add another person to your book:

1. Log in to Pressbooks: wisc.pb.unizin.org
2. Click My Catalog and select the book that you want to add another person to.
3. Click Users in the left navigation menu:
   
   
4. Click Add New.
5. Enter the user's UW-Madison email in the Email entry field.
   
6. Select the role you want the user to have in your Pressbook from the Role drop-down menu. The below table lists each user role, and what those roles have access in a book.
   

   Role	Manage Book Users & Settings	Add or Edit Chapters	Publish Chapters	Delete Chapters	Read Chapters	Comment (if enabled)
   Administrator	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
   Editor	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
   Author	No	Only their own	Only their own	Only their own	Yes	Yes
   Contributor	No	Only their own	No	No	Yes	Yes
   Subscriber	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes

7. Click Add Existing User.