University of California at Berkeley Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Instructional Support Group /share/b/pub/textbooks.help Feb 12 2014 CONTENTS: Overview The Cal Book Store Textbooks Online Lectures Online A Campus-Wide E-Textbook Initiative (Educause 2009) Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) California Senate bill seeks Open source textbook library Accessibility Resources for Instructors Overview -------- This document is intended to inform students of sources for on-line or reduced-cost text books for EECS courses. For more information, please visit http://teaching.berkeley.edu/textbook-affordability-accessibility The instructor for the course is the best source of information about the requirements and availability of materials for the course. The "Instructional Support Group" (ISG) is the IT support staff for the computers used for EECS courses. ISG is not involved in the selection, sales or distribution of text books. So this information is provided as a courtesy and may not be up-to-date. We do not endorse any of the sites or companies listed here. ISG does support software for EECS courses. The required software is available in our labs. Home editions of the software may also be available, is licenses permit it. For information about specific software, please see http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/software.html. The Cal Book Store ------------------ The Cal Student Store is in the Martin Luther King Jr Student Union. Books are sold, rented and bought there. CafeScribe is their site for e-books (http://www.bkstr.com/CategoryDisplay/10001-9604-10433-1?demoKey=d). Textbooks Online ---------------- SICP (61A): http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html Simply Scheme (3L): http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html Ramakrishnan/Gehrke (CS186): http://www.primisonline.com/cgi-bin/POL_program.cgi?programCode=RMKN3 Other sites: http://www.primisonline.com [print McGraw-Hill eBooks] http://teaching.berkeley.edu/textbooks/ [tips for faculty and for students] http://ici9.oum.edu.my/pdf/paper06.pdf [research paper, 2009] http://www.coursesmart.com/ [e-books] http://www.vitalsource.com/ [e-books] http://etextbookshop.com/ [e-books and used books] "Amazon.com has announced that it is starting a program to rent electronic versions of college textbooks on its Kindle e-reader platform. The Company says that students can save as much as 80% when renting instead of buying. Books can be rented for periods of 30 to 360 days, and Kindle reader software is available for PC and Mac computers as well as many mobile devices." [AAA "Via" magazine, Oct 2011] Lectures Online --------------- Lectures Videos: http://webcast.berkeley.edu ASUC Lecture Notes: http://asucstudentaffairs.berkeley.edu/asinside.aspx?uid=32 A Campus-Wide E-Textbook Initiative (Educause 2009) --------------------------------------------------- http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/ACampusWideETextbookInitiative/174581 Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) --------------------------------------- (http://www2.ed.gov/policy/highered/leg/hea08/index.html) The Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) has provisions to reduce costs to students while supporting instructors` ability to select high-quality course materials. HEOA requires that course book information be made accessible to students before they enroll in a course. UC Berkeley complies with HEOA by asking faculty to submit book orders to the Cal Student Store so they can be listed in the course catalogue. This also makes it possible for the store to buy back books at the end of the semester and offer them at a discount in the future. California Senate bill seeks Open source textbook library --------------------------------------------------------- (April 2012) The California State Senate is considering a bill that would fund a library containing open source textbooks for the 50 most popular lower division courses at the state.s colleges and universities. Students could download the textbooks for free or pay about $20 for a hard copy. For more information: http://www.dailycal.org/2012/02/29/california-state-senate-bill-seeks-to-create-open-source-textbook-library/ http://sd06.senate.ca.gov/news/2011-12-13-steinberg-proposal-slashes-textbook-costs-california-college-students Accessibility ------------- The Disabled Students Program (http://dsp.berkeley.edu/) converts instructional materials into accessible formats, such as Braille, large print and digital/electronic. Resources for Instructors ------------------------- Instructors are expected to submit textbook adoptions at least seven weeks before classes start. For assistance in submitting textbook orders, please contact Rich Berberian at text@berkeley.edu or call 510-845-1226 x683. EECS Instructional Support 384/386 Cory Hall, 333 Soda Hall inst@eecs.berkeley.edu