Faculty adopt required and optional course materials, and students may purchase these materials, through the Soonerbooks.com, operated by Textbook Brokers. Soonerbooks is OU’s official bookstore and course material provider, and it is an online experience for faculty and students.
Soonerbooks:
As the OU Norman Campus official bookstore, Soonerbooks/Textbook Brokers is active in the university community. They provide funding that supports course material affordability programs, book scholarships, support for student organizations, and student veteran programming.
All course materials should be adopted through Soonerbooks.com exclusively. Many students rely on book scholarships and scholarship/financial aid vouchers, and these can only be used through Soonerbooks.com.
Submitting adoptions through Soonerbooks.com is a quick and easy process. Faculty simply visit the portal and use the 4+4 to login and submit adoptions for the courses they are assigned to teach. Soonerbooks is integrated with Banner, OU’s Student Information System. If any changes need to be made to course assignments, a department administrator or Classroom Management staff will need to make those changes. Staff members who coordinate adoptions on behalf of their academic units can also use the portal to enter adoptions.
Even if the course does not require any materials or uses Open Educational Resources (OER), it is important to log in and provide this course material status for your course. When students log in with their 4+4, they see a personalized landing page with each of their enrolled courses and the required and recommended materials. It is important students know which courses do not require materials to be purchased.
The Higher Education Opportunities Act (HEOA) requires higher education institutions to provide the complete list of required and recommended textbooks (including ISBN and pricing information) to the bookstore in time for student registration. Faculty assure the university complies with this law by adopting their materials through the Soonerbooks.com portal according to this timeline:
Summer and Fall
Portal Opens: February 15
Adoption Deadline: March 15
Spring
Portal Opens: September 15
Adoption Deadline: October 15
For Faculty and Staff Questions
John Beecher, Soonerbooks Manager
oubookstore@textbookbrokers.com
(405) 285-5600
For Students
soonerbooks@textbookbrokers.com
(405) 285-5600
Morgan Briles
University of Oklahoma Libraries
Open Educational Resources Librarian
Bizzell Memorial Library
mwbriles@ou.edu
405-325-7998
Matt Hamilton
Special Assistant to the Provost
mhamilton@ou.edu or
(405) 325-4615.
