Empower Students to Access Quality Research

Finding the right resources to enrich your course syllabi and adequately support the highest level of critical thinking and knowledge advancement among your students can be quite the arduous task. To simplify this process, we offer several options, including affordable student access through your library's digital resources, as well as traditional print options.

Digital Access

Our InfoSci® Platform is built to support equitable access to quality research for your students through your institution's library. While some situations may still require students to buy some books via traditional course adoption procedures, digital access through an institution's library is a much more affordable way of accessing your recommended and required readings.

Benefits of the InfoSci® Platform for Students

No limit to simultaneous users on our InfoSci® platform
All e-books can be accessed with as PDF and HTML formats
Use of our advanced AI-powered search
Access all content with no DRM, and use our citation formatting and export tools to RefWorks and EasyBib
Multi-disciplinary subject coverage across Business & Management, STM, and Education & Social Sciences
100% double-anonymized peer-reviewed research that is highly indexed, award winning, and led by renowned researchers.

IGI Global Scientific Publishing e-Book Collection

Recommend the IGI Global Scientific Publishing e-Book Collection to your librarian to give your students a vast resource of 10,000+ peer-reviewed research books by the end of the 2026 copyright year. Dozens of new books are released on the platform every week, featuring multidisciplinary research across the major subject areas of Business & Management; Science, Technology & Medicine (STM); and Education & Social Sciences.

Recommend the e-Book Collection

Individual e-Book Recommendations

Many institutions may not be able to immediately invest in the IGI Global Scientific Publishing e-Book Collection. You can give your students all the same benefits of the InfoSci® Platform on a smaller scale when you recommend specific titles to be acquired by your library as an e-Book on our platform.

Explore our collection of research books on our Online Bookstore, and when viewing the book's webpage, look for the button, "Recommend to Your Library," or to check to see if this resource is already available on the platform via a library purchase, select the button "Access Full-Text" in the top right corner of the page.

Should you have any questions regarding our e-books or the InfoSci® platform features or functionality, please contact our Customer Service Team at cust@igi-global.com. For questions about the e-Book Collection, contact eresources@igi-global.com.

Print Copies

Traditional Course Adoption Program

Instructors are invited to participate in our Course Adoption program, which includes a free 7-day electronic examination of the text under review. Access will be provided via the InfoSci® platform. As we are a print-on-demand and digital-preferred publisher, we do not offer print desk copies for review.

Some publication formats are excluded from the program, but are still part of the IGI Global Scientific Publishing e-Book Collection.

Excluded from Course Adoption

Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
Handbooks of Research (2 Vols. or More)
Research Anthologies (these can be added to an e-Book Collection investment by request from the Library)

Traditional Course Adoption Process

Step 1 - Request a Free Examination Copy

Professors considering an IGI Global Scientific Publishing title for adoption into their class may request a complimentary 7-day full-text electronic examination copy. To qualify for the complimentary exam copy, professors must fill out the form located below or contact the Marketing Department directly at marketing@igi-global.com with your full name, affiliation, the title of interest, publication title, course name, and estimated number of students that will be enrolled in the course.

Step 2: Approval and Electronic Access

Once your request has been received and approved, we will open complimentary electronic access to the publication for seven (7) days, and once the access expires, if the instructor decides they would like to adopt the publication into their course, assist with setting up a specialized coupon code or if it is a domestic institution, work with the institution's bookstore.

For instructors who decide not to adopt the book into their course and would like further assistance finding a title better suited to their class, please feel free to contact the Marketing Team at marketing@igi-global.com.

Step 3: Ordering Information and Discounts

Complimentary Desk Copy for Instructors: We will track the number of titles purchased for the course and once ten (10) copies have been sold, the instructor will be provided with one desk copy at no additional cost. (Note: The complimentary desk copy is only available the first year the title is adopted).

Domestic & International: Upon contacting the Marketing Department, instructors will receive a unique coupon code which will allow their students to take up to 40% off the price of the title when they order the print or electronic format of the publication through our Online Bookstore. The Marketing Team will also provide written instructions and direct links for you to share with your students.

Domestic Only: Professors at U.S. and Canadian institutions may also opt to order the titles through their university bookstore. If this option is selected, the instructor will need to provide their Marketing Team member with the bookstore’s contact information. The bookstore will order directly from IGI Global Scientific Publishing and the students will purchase the print copy through the university bookstore.

Students wishing to receive the electronic version of the title may still order directly through our Online Bookstore and receive access instructions. For further assistance, please contact Customer Service at cust@igi-global.com.

Course Adoption Request Form

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