Course Materials

ProQuest SIPX Adds Features for Easier Creation and Sharing of Digital Course Materials

• By Rhea Kelly
• 11/17/15

ProQuest has launched new capabilities in its SIPX digital course materials products designed to make it easier for faculty to create and share digital content. The company's three SIPX solutions — SIPX Central, SIPX Campus and SIPX for MOOCs — pull together open educational resources, publisher content and library holdings in a Web-based system that addresses copyright and cost concerns for colleges and universities.

In a press release, the company cited four primary enhancements:

• Extension of SIPX's permanent linking technology into repeating courses on learning management systems and teaching platform course Web pages;
• Individual reading links created in SIPX automatically appear in LMS course Web pages;
• More options for streamlined authentication to campus systems to enable single sign-on for instructors and students; and
• Deeper integration with ProQuest-subscribed documents, reducing the need for scanning or uploading.

Benefits of the system include "average savings of 20-35 percent for students on course materials; over 50 percent savings for institution-pay models and library reserves permissions budgets; copyright-compliance for the university and flexibility to support a wide range of faculty's preferred teaching platforms; granular analytics insights for school and library on course material selection and student engagement; as well as cost-recovery opportunities for school- and instructor-owned copyrights," according to a company statement. For more information, visit the ProQuest site.