Adopt E-Textbooks for Z-Courses

Montgomery College Library supports college affordability and z-course creation by helping faculty discover and adopt no-cost, high-quality e-books and e-textbooks for their courses. This service supports the MC Open initiative, which aims to "leverage pedagogy that fosters student success while reducing costs and increasing access to course materials."

RaptorSelect

RaptorSelect is a self-service platform that allows faculty to find and adopt an e-book or e-textbook to use as their course text. RaptorSelect contains thousands of high-quality titles on a wide variety of academic subjects. All items in the RaptorSelect platform are available to you and your students completely free of cost. RaptorSelect contains three types of e-books:

Find and Adopt an E-Book or E-Textbook for a Z-Course

1. Open the RaptorSelect platform.
   Access RaptorSelect
2. Search for an item to adopt as your course text.
3. Preview as many titles as you would like until you locate one you would like to adopt.
4. Click the title of your selected item to access the full record view.
5. Click the Adopt This E-Book link in the item's full record view.
6. Complete and submit the form. 
7. The Collection Development Librarian will email you within 5 business days with a link to the item that you can share with your students however you prefer (e.g., Blackboard, syllabus, email).

Note: If you plan to work in multiple sessions, consider using the RaptorSelect favorites feature, which allows you to save items for later review. To access this feature, click "Sign In" in the white bar at the top of the page and use your MC credentials when prompted. Then click the pin icon next to any item you'd like to save to your account. You can also use favorites without an account, in which case you must email the favorites to yourself prior to exiting your session.

Obtaining Z-Course Designation

Z-courses are courses in which students will not be charged for instructional materials. Faculty members who have adopted an e-book or e-textbook through the library should have their section designated as a z-course to make students aware of this benefit. To have your section designated as a z-course, contact your chair and campus scheduler to ensure your section is coded correctly in their course notes in Banner.

If you need more information or assistance with z-course designations, please contact MC Online.