Adopting Course Materials

What We Can Do For You

Send adoption reminder e-mails
Ensure that your academic materials are in-stock and accurate for all of your courses
Liaise with publishers on your behalf regarding editions, pricing and peripheral materials
Help you create customized course materials through liaison with publishing representatives, access copyright and the print center
Profile our McMaster authors
Save you money with your departmental account The Campus Store pays the HST on internal sales when you pay using your departmental account.
Supply custom crested products for conferences and departments.

What You Could Do For Us

Adopt early the mission of the Campus Store is to provide required course materials at the lowest prices possible. To that end, we encourage Faculty to adopt their books as early as possible and to consider low cost alternatives.

Spring/Summer 2020 Course Adoptions: The adoption from we had been using was retired by the vendor. We continue to work on developing a new adoption platform. We hope to make it available as soon as possible and appreciate your patience in the meantime. We will happily accept your course adoptions by email in the interim.
To submit a course adoption:
Please email d-bktext@mcmaster.ca and include:
Instructor name and email address
Course information (code, section, estimated enrollment)
Book information (ISBN, author, publisher, edition)
Is the book required or optional?

Custom Courseware Adoptions:
Please ccw@mcmaster.ca and include:
Instructor name and email address
Course information (code, section, estimated enrollment)
Is the courseware required or optional?
Are you re-adopting previous courseware, or creating new courseware?
Support the use of your chosen course materials to your students. By stressing the importance of purchasing your course materials and utilizing them as much as possible throughout the course, sell-through of these materials will increase which minimizes the amount of stock returns to the publishers and saves the university valuable dollars.

What We Can Do Together For Students

The most important issues for students regarding their course materials are cost and value. By working together, we can ensure price choices through used books, buybacks, custom coursepacks, textbook rental, and digital alternatives. Supporting course materials throughout the duration of the course will assign a sense of value to those materials.

FAQs

Textbook Adoption General FAQ
Frequently asked questions about adopting textbooks and electronic course materials and McMaster's new Online Adoption System.

Courseware Adoption FAQ
Frequently asked questions about the preparation of Custom Coursepacks.

Copyright Information
Copyright guidelines for the adoption and production of Custom Coursepacks.

Publisher Representatives

Contact information for the major publishers to aid faculty in the choosing of new textbooks and ordering desk copies.

Contact the Course Materials Team
Fiona O'Connor	Course Materials Manager	ext. 22627
Cathy Overeem	Course Materials Buyer	ext. 22628
Amber Dawkins	Course Materials Buyer/Courseware Coordinator	ext. 22621
Karin Stonehouse	Course Materials Buyer	ext. 27366
Cheryl Sinclair	Required Supplies Buyer	ext. 22629

Suggested Course Material Submission Dates:

Fall June 1
Winter October 1
Spring/Summer March 1

Welcome to the Campus Store

The McMaster Campus Store strives to inspire innovation and discovery through the delivery of accessible educational tools and materials, in partnership with the Academic Community, positioning students for success. As an active campus partner since our founding in 1931, the Campus Store engages the community with everything McMaster, enhancing school spirit by creating a memorable and enjoyable McMaster experience. Sales from the Campus Store support all operational costs, and additional contributions made to the University in support of student success.

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