All you need to do to create your own coursepack is to provide us with the original material and a table of contents, and we will secure all of the necessary copyright permissions. You will provide your students with a coursepack customized specifically for your course with the same ease as you prepare your own course materials for your classes.
Coursepacks
Instructors: Create your own custom coursepack to give your students current and affordable course material.
Benefits
To you
- Convenient way to keep course material up to date and tailored to the course.
- Content that is flexible and can easily combine excerpts from various sources, including personal notes, textbooks and other published or unpublished materials.
- Easy editing and updating for future terms. If you wish to make any changes to previous coursepacks, simply submit the additions or changes you wish to make.
- Quality product: we scan, clean, and proofread every coursepack.
- Easy reprint or revision: coursepacks are digitally archived.
- Guaranteed 100% copyright compliant.
- Free desk copy for the instructor.
To your students
- Content that is useful and relevant to the course.
- Affordable course material.
- More cost effective than purchasing multiple textbooks for one course.
- Conveniently sold through the Concordia Book Stop, in stores or online.
- All coursepacks are paginated making readings easy to find.
Copyright
We respect and share your concerns with respect to copyright. All coursepacks are legally printed, digitized and distributed.
We obtain copyright permission for all material in accordance with the university’s agreement with COPIBEC, a not-for-profit collective that manages the reproduction rights, protection of intellectual property and distribution of appropriate royalties on behalf of copyright owners.
In accordance with Concordia University’s Agreement with COPIBEC, if you will be using copyrighted materials in your courses, please be reminded that:
- paper coursepacks, and any digital versions thereof (eCoursepacks), must be processed through Concordia Print Services in collaboration with Eastman System;
- all other copyrighted digital documents (PDFs, scanned from print, or any other digital format) posted on Moodle or any other digital platform must be processed through the Library’s Course Reserves service; and