Instructors

You can request a print or digital examination copy by browsing to the title’s landing page by searching for the book or browsing via the relevant subject page.

Once you have arrived at the book’s page you can select the 'Request Examination Copy' button on the right-hand side. From there you can fill out the examination copy form, including your preference for digital or physical format. The status of your examination copy request can be followed in the My Account area.

Digital

When your request is approved, you will have access to your digital examination copy for 6 months, starting from the day that you first open the textbook through Cambridge Spiral. Having access to the book through Cambridge Spiral means you will be able to both explore the functionality that the eReader offers, and review the quality content of our textbooks. You will be able to read the textbook through your web browser, or download the Cambridge Spiral app to download and read offline.

Print

To ensure secure delivery, we prefer to send print copies to faculty addresses, and we always ask you for your institutional address. However, in certain circumstances, we can agree to send print copies to non-institutional addresses. In such cases, please enter the second address after your institutional address. Once the request is processed, you will receive a notification that the book is on its way to you, if approved.

If electronic textbook provision is handled by your librarian, we’d suggest passing on details of the title needed to your librarian who will organise payment and set access up for your institution. Your librarian may have an existing relationship and account with Cambridge
University Press so the process should be relatively straightforward, but we can process direct requests from an instructor if the library is not involved.

If there is no 'Request Examination copy' link on the page, then the book probably does not fall in into our standard textbook programme. If you are considering adopting a title such as this, or if you are having any other problems when requesting an examination copy, please contact our sales team. In order to process your request they will need the name of the course, its course code, the estimated number of students and when you expect to next teach the course.