Lower Cost Resources
Introduction to Lowering Costs on Paid Materials
- Don't have the time, or not finding any good OER for your class?
- Below is information on ways you can still help lower the costs of textbooks for your class.
- Enroll your class and students will receive free access on the first day of classes along with publisher discounted pricing
- Publisher discounts means cheaper than the new print price and digital direct price.
- Over 17% of sections where a textbook was adopted are now in the D1DA program as of Spring 2021
For more information, visit our Day 1 Digital Access webpage.
- Direct your students to purchase from the Bookstore shopping site
- Any textbook you require automatically shows a price comparison on the campus store shopping site including the online marketplace such as Amazon, Chegg, etc.
- As a non-profit, the Bookstore Services provides pricing transparency in an effort to save students money
Visit BeachBookCompare.com.
- Submit your textbook information to the campus in a timely manner
- The sooner you submit, the more used books, rentals, and looseleafs that the campus store will be able to acquire
- General textbook information submission time is during the month of October or March for the upcoming semester
For more information, visit the Faculty Textbook Adoptions and Resources webpage.
- Create, customize, and publish your own course packets through CSULB, whether it be a course reader or a workbook/manual
- Services include copyright clearance
- Average course packet price was $18.55 to students as of Spring 2021
For more information, visit the Faculty Course Packets webpage.