8:52 a.m.
This message is sent on behalf of Nicole Allen, SPARC.
Dear colleagues,
I’m thrilled to announce the launch of
InclusiveAccess.org<https://www.inclusiveaccess.org/>g/>: a community-driven initiative
to raise awareness of the facts about automatic textbook billing.
Little known five years ago, Inclusive Access has taken off as a sales model that
automatically adds the cost of digital textbooks into students’ tuition and fees. While
this model is intended to address some of the challenges with high textbook costs, it is
also creating new challenges for students and faculty.
How exactly does Inclusive Access work? Does it really save students money? What about
this kind of program is “inclusive”? Straightforward answers to these questions aren’t
always easy to find.
InclusiveAccess.org is a one-stop-shop for information, tools, and other resources to help
administrators, faculty, students, and policymakers make informed decisions about
Inclusive Access and its implications for the campus community.
InclusiveAccess.org was developed by SPARC with generous support from the Michelson 20MM
Foundation<http://20mm.org/>g/>. Partners<http://inclusiveaccess.org/about-us>
include AAC&U, Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Creative Commons,
DigiTex, Student PIRGs, Open Education Global, and OpenStax. Other mission-aligned
organizations are encouraged to join.
If conversations about Inclusive Access are happening in your campus or state, we hope you
will consider sharing this resource far and wide! To stay in the loop, sign up for
emails<https://www.inclusiveaccess.org/subscribe> and follow
@TextbookBilling<https://twitter.com/textbookbilling> on Twitter.
Cheers,
Nicole Starr Allen
SPARC<http://www.sparcopen.org/> | Director of Open Education
1201 Connecticut Ave NW, #608
Washington, DC 20036 USA
+1 (202) 750-1637
nicole@sparcopen.org<mailto:nicole@sparcopen.org>
@txtbks<http://twitter.com/txtbks>
Arianna Cheveldave [Hear my name]<http://nmdrp.me/ariannacheveldave>
Coordinator, Open Education, BCcampus
Email: acheveldave@bccampus.ca<mailto:acheveldave@bccampus.ca> • LinkedIn:
ariannacheveldave<https://ca.linkedin.com/in/arianna-cheveldave> • Pronouns:
She/her
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I acknowledge that the land I live, work, and play on is the unceded territory of the
səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm
(Musqueam) peoples. I thank them for their hospitality.