For students

See your class site in Canvas, Stellar, or Stellar LMOD for digital and electronic materials faculty have made available.

For faculty/instructors

Consider online materials for your courses

Please reconsider using textbooks to ensure equitable access for all students. Many textbook publishers, such as Pearson, Cengage, and McGraw Hill don’t allow libraries to purchase electronic copies of textbooks. Some alternatives include:

• Link to content from the Libraries’ collection of electronic resources: e-books, journal articles, streaming media, and other digital materials.
• Adopt open educational resources (OER) that are freely available and allow for re-use and modification.
• Select alternate course materials available electronically in consultation with your liaison librarian.
• If you are the author of a textbook used in an MIT class, the MIT Libraries can work with you to make the textbook available to students. Please contact scholarlypub@mit.edu.
• Suggest a purchase of e-materials.
• Request a scan from the Libraries’ print collections (excluding items unavailable due to the Hayden Renovation) through our Scan & Deliver service or request something the Libraries do not own. See Scanning requests for complete information.

If a class does require a textbook:

• Submit a new request via the TIP form or through Faculty Enlight.
  OR
• Cancel/update an existing request by emailing Libraries reserves staff and The COOP as early as possible.

Upload or link materials to your course management system

For help adding content:

• Stellar, LMOD, and Canvas have help pages for adding content.
• Please visit the MIT Canvas Guide for Instructors for more information on the campus-wide instance of Canvas.
• Learn how to review course materials for copyright and fair use.