CSU Immediate Access

CSU Immediate Access

This is a joint program in which students for a class have access at NO CHARGE to their major publisher course materials in digital format on the first day of class and retain access until the add/drop date deadline at no cost. At or prior to the add/drop date, the student will have the option to ‘opt-out’ electronically and discontinue access to the materials. Students who choose to continue will be charged for the materials and access continues. The cost is significantly lower than new, used, open market digital, and rental materials.

CSU Affordable Learning $olutions Immediate Access Programs are available via all campus bookstores and can be delivered through various software applications within the stores’ systems.

The opportunity to have access to materials on the first day of classes without having to pay for them is critically important to students who can only pay for their needs incrementally. The ability to actually use the product without cost and self-determine preferences in format is unique. While not a restrictive mandated ‘fee’, the opt-out program still affords the publisher's potential of improved sales and thus their willingness to offer significantly lower costs to students. Materials in Immediate Access programs are digitally-delivered full versions of traditional major-market textbooks thus faculty do not have to change their preferred content.

All of these improvements are extremely valuable to students and instrumental in students’ success which are basics of the Affordable Learning $olutions goals.