Derivative and Database Solutions

Providing students with the right materials for your course often isn't as easy as ordering a generic textbook from a publisher's catalog. Sometimes one textbook isn't enough. Other times it's too much. We'll bet there are times when you wish you could tear out a chapter from one book and staple it to a chapter from another text to provide your students with the exact information they need. Imagine a database of textbook content from which you could build your own customized textbook, developed specifically for the course you teach, the way you teach it. That is exactly the service that Nelson Custom Publishing delivers through its derivative and database products.

How It Works

Our TextChoice2 online database contains a wide variety of content from textbooks published by various Cengage Learning companies, including Nelson Education, Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning, Course Technology Cengage Learning, Delmar Cengage Learning, Heinle Cengage Learning, South-Western, and Wadsworth Cengage Learning. Simply log in (membership is free) and let your mouse do the rest of the work. Through TextChoice2, you can search for content on most academic subjects. View the content online, mix and match chapters from multiple titles, or cut down one textbook to create a smaller, more manageable book. TextChoice2 automatically generates a new table of contents and allows you to save your custom project online to finish at a later date. You can even add your own learning materials that you have developed over the course of your career. When you're done, you can preview the book in PDF format, then submit the finished product to our sales department for a quote.

Database Solutions

Carefully developed by experts and instructors with the student's learning experience in mind, our TextChoice2 online database also contains a number of Database Publishing programs. Our database products consist of valuable pedagogy in addition to extensive collections of content such as lab exercises, readings, and cases. All database components include teaching tools to measure comprehension, relevant resources for further research, and essential instructor materials.

Nelson Custom Publishing provides broad compilations of readily available content while our online interface allows you to build your custom project in minutes. The TextChoice2 web site offers easy online access to several dynamic collections of learning materials and allows you to create, modify, view, and order custom instructional tools instantaneously.

The Finished Product

Depending upon the complexity of the materials you've incorporated, a custom textbook usually takes 4 to 6 weeks from quote submission to bookstore delivery. In most cases, your new textbook will come with a 4-color custom cover and a black and white interior. Your book will be repaginated in the order that you specify, and include only the materials you selected for your course. Your index will be updated to refer only to the information that you have chosen for your custom text.

For more information about our derivative and database textbook solutions, please contact Jarrod Hann, your Custom Publishing Editor.