Course Packs
We make it convenient! Creative Communications partners with the University Book Store for the sales of UW course packs. One-stop-shopping for your students means they can dig into the quarter even earlier. Creative Communications creates customized quality course packs quickly and conveniently.Don't leave your desk! Call or email and we'll pick up your materials, produce your course pack and deliver free desk copies for the TA/Professor.
Creating a Course Pack
Give credit where credit is due. We do all the work protecting your and others' intellectual property rights with copyright-cleared packs.
Creative Communications can accept original files (hard copies) or electronic files for producing your course packs.
If you have original materials (books, journals); you will need to compile all of your proposed course pack materials in sequential order. This would include all books, journals, papers, etc. Include a table of contents and bibliography for these items. Mark all pages to be produced with Post-It notes or paper clips.
Please note that the quality of your course pack is dependent on the quality of the original materials we receive.
If you have electronic files, you will need to create a master file with a sequential list of the electronic documents, a table of contents and bibliography of all the materials to be printed in your course pack. Include this file when you send everything to your Copy Center.
If you have questions, accelerated deadlines or other requirements, you can reach the Copyright Permissions Center at 206-685-7969.
Copyright Permissions
Protection of intellectual property rights is important to the University of Washington and to Creative Communications. To facilitate the use of copyright-protected materials in printed course packets, Copy Services has established the University of Washington Copyright Permissions Center (CPC). This clearance service is available to anyone preparing course materials (Course Packs) to be sold at the University Book Store.
CPC will make it easy for you by contacting the publishers for permission to copy material, initiate follow-up phone contact to ensure prompt service, calculate and pay the proper royalties, print the Course Pak materials, and sell the Course Packs at the University Book Store. The cost for these services is incorporated in the price of the Course Pak. Copyright permission request forms are available at all campus copy centers or can be downloaded. You may also call 206-685-7969 to request forms. Call us and we'll arrange to pick up your completed order form and materials, or you can leave them at any Copy Center.
When submitting your order please fill out a copyright permissions request form listing each item which requires copyright clearance. Be sure to include the title, author, page numbers, publisher, and copyright date. Please note that most articles are cleared very quickly. Due to high volumes, we request information two weeks prior to the start of the quarter. As always, whenever we receive your materials, we will do our best to ensure that your Course Pack is available to students before the first day of class.This will allow enough time for us to obtain copyright permissions and reproduce the material. If you wish to obtain your own permission, you may do so. Simply include the written permission when submitting your course materials. However, material requiring royalty payments must be processed by CPC, if the cost is to be included in the Course Pak price.
