N.G.F.[2016]No.74
In order to standardize the textbook construction and selection work in NIT, ensure the textbook quality, guarantee the textbook supply, support the publishing of excellent textbooks, and do the textbook proposal construction work well, the methods are hereby formulated.
Chapter 1 Textbook Proposal Construction
Article 1 Category of Textbook Proposal
1. The textbooks subject to the proposal construction of NIT are divided into major construction textbooks and general construction textbooks. In which, major construction textbooks will be funded as NIT undergraduate teaching project.
2. The proposal of state-level and provincial and ministerial level textbooks shall be recommended by Dean’s Office as required by relevant superior documents. The project recommended must be the major construction project for the textbook of NIT in principle.
Article 2 Textbook Proposal Procedure
1. NIT will organize the proposal application for the textbooks once every year. In-service teachers in NIT with professional and technical title of intermediate level and above and engaging in the major teaching work for no less than five years are allowed to apply for textbook proposal of corresponding course in talent cultivation plan.
2. Person in charge of the application shall fill in NIT Textbook Proposal Application Form which shall be signed opinions by the School (Faculty), then submitted to Dean’s Office for summary and submitted to editorial committee for determination.
3. After the editorial committee delivers the determination result to the NIT academic committee for discussion and passing, the result shall be publicized in the campus for at least five working days; after the publicity without objections, it shall be submitted to the president office for determination.
4. After the proposal is approved, the applicant may start to writ the textbook. Textbooks approved to be established must be completed within stipulated period; and the proposal will be automatically void if failed to be completed before deadline. Re-application for proposal is needed for continuing to write the textbook.
5. Textbooks via NIT proposal can be only used in NIT after published.
Article 3 Textbook Proposal Principles
1. Applicable textbooks required by teaching without any officially published edition.
2. The textbooks need to be re-compiled due to the old and out-of-date contents of the officially published textbooks currently.
3. Textbooks able to reflect the major features of NIT as required by major and course system reform.
Article 4 Textbook Compilation Principles
1. It shall meet the requirements of teaching program and syllabus, with certain ideological, scientific, advanced and applicable nature.
2. It shall meet the integrity of textbooks (including conclusion, reflection questions, exercises, main references, and etc.)
3. The literal expression shall be accurate and concise, with language easily to be understood, and the punctuations are in line with norms.
4. Collect the latest data at home and abroad, study the textbook system and contents, be able to solve the insufficiency of current textbooks, and fully embody the characteristics of the textbooks compiled.
Article 5 Miscellaneous
1. Textbook construction adopts level-to-level administration system. “Ganyu Shuxi” textbook editorial committee is in charge of making the textbook construction plan, Dean’s Office organizes the proposal and review of the textbook, and the schools (faculties) cooperate for the specific work to implement textbook construction. It shall focus on optimizing configuration and gradually establish high-quality and three-dimensional textbook system required for cultivating application-oriented talents with high level, quality and skills.
2. Actively encourage and support teachers to be the editor-in-chief and co-editor of national and provincial projected textbooks.
3. If the teaching program is changed, and the corresponding courses of the textbooks proposed are cancelled or not selected by the elective courses, leading to the textbooks proposed fail to be implemented in the utilization class, the textbook will not be compiled or printed to avoid textbook overstock.
Chapter 2 Funding for Publically Published Textbook
Article 6 Source and Utilization of Fund for Textbook Publishing
1. Source of Fund: mainly rely on the budget subsidy for school education undertakings, also accept the donation from social organizations, institutions and individuals. Any year-end surplus of the fund will be transferred to the next year for accumulative use:
2. Special fund will be used for subsidizing the expenses for publishing textbooks and expenses for expert argumentation required for publishing textbooks.
Article 7 Scope of Funding
It is used for subsidizing the textbooks required for specialized courses with high academic level chiefly edited by teachers of our school in principle, and the textbooks for specialized core courses (groups) will enjoy the priority.
Article 8 Application Conditions
1. Applicants must be the person in charge of application for textbook proposal.
2. Applicant’s textbook has been listed into the compilation plan for self-compiled textbook and used for more than two years, with distinctive features, great reform in course arrangement and teaching contents and good using effect.
Article 9 Procedures for Application and Verification
1. Applicant shall fill in NIT Textbook Acceptance Inspection Application Form, and submitted to the school (faculty) in charge together with the book.
2. Applicant’s teaching research room shall put forward argumentation opinion and submit to the school (faculty) for verification.
3. After passed by the review and argumentation by the peer experts with professional titles of secondary senior and above organized by the school (faculty), it shall be submitted to editorial committee for acceptance inspection.
4. NIT will take the textbook passing acceptance inspection as undergraduate teaching engineering project and subsidize 20 thousand yuan for each project.
Article 10 As for textbooks published under funding, the editor-in-chief of the textbook shall be responsible for the textbook contents, style, words, applicability and intellectual property, and is able to revise the textbook; the copyright of the textbook shall belong to NIT.
Chapter 3 Selection of Textbook
Article 11 Principles for the Selection of Textbook
1. The textbook selected shall meet the requirements of syllabus, with strong ideological, scientific and advanced nature as well as the teaching adaptability.
2. Adhere to the principle of choosing the best, preferentially choose excellent textbooks obtaining national or provincial (ministerial) level awards, newly published national and provincial and ministerial level mainly planned textbooks and nation-wide uniformly edited textbooks.
3. If excellent textbooks, mainly planned textbooks or uniformly edited textbooks are not selected, explanation shall be made by teaching research room in written form. Excellent textbooks (or uniformly edited textbooks) must be selected in case of insufficient reason for no selection.
4. In principle, one textbook will be selected for one course, and teaching counseling materials and reference books are not distributed to students as textbooks.
Article 12 Procedures for the Selection of Textbooks
1. As for textbooks for newly-set courses, teachers in charge shall compare and analyze the textbooks of different versions according to the contents and put forward the textbooks to be selected.
2. Teaching research office shall select proper textbooks after careful discussion and research according to the textbook selection principles, which will be reviewed by director of teaching research office.
3. The school shall submit the textbooks with disputes in the process of selection to professor committee for approval, and Dean’s Office shall organize the approval.
Chapter 4 Solicitation for Subscription of Textbooks
Article 13 Dean’s Office must provide textbooks list to the schools (faculties) upon the solicitation for subscription of textbooks in Spring and Autumn every year, and timely provide the publishing information of new textbooks, for the reference of teachers for textbook selection.
Article 14 Within the time for solicitation for subscription stipulated by Dean’s Office, the solicitation for subscription of textbooks shall be conducted in the system for textbooks used in the class, designated teachers shall conduct the solicitation for subscription and review submission; after two-level approval by director of teaching research office and leaders in charge of school (faculty), teaching secretary shall print the summary sheet for textbooks subscribed after the approval, and procedures for the order shall be uniformly handled by Dean’s Office after signed by leaders in charge of school (faculty) and affixed with department seal.
Article 15 If the course teacher is unable to be determined within the time limit for textbook order, director of teaching research office shall subscribe according to the situation of the same majors last year. No person is allowed to delay the time for textbook subscription for any reason.
Article 16 The subscription of textbooks for each courses is only conducted for one-year students.
Chapter 5 Textbook Supply and Storage
Article 17 Textbooks subscribed by Dean’s Office shall be kept and distributed by Dean’s Office.
Article 18 Upon enrollment, freshmen shall prepay the book costs for the first academic year in NIT finance department as per the book amount stipulated in “Notes to Freshmen Enrollment”, and get the textbooks within stipulated time limit taking class as unit. Class monitor shall verify the names, editors-in-chief, publishing houses and unit prices of the textbooks in person while getting the textbooks, and check the quantity of textbooks, and no one assumes any liability after ex-warehouse. In case of missing page, white page, inverted printing and other binding problems in the textbooks, students may replace a new book with the original book free of charge in the stack within one week.
Article 19 Students shall prepay book costs as stipulated in the notice since the second academic year, and get textbooks subscribed in the stack taking class as unit when new semester starts. Please verify the names, editors-in-chief, publishing houses and unit prices of the textbooks in person while getting the textbooks, and check the quantity of textbooks, and no one assumes any liability after ex-warehouse. In case of missing page, white page, inverted printing and other binding problems in the textbooks, students may replace a new book with the original book free of charge in the stack within one week.
Article 20 Teachers getting textbooks shall fill in NIT Textbook Receiving Form, and get the book after signed and sealed by leaders in charge of the course-subordinated school (faculty). The same teacher shall not get the textbook of the same edition within three years.
Article 21 Do a good job in filing and storage of excellent textbooks and self-edited textbooks.
Chapter 6 Textbook Settlement
Article 22 Students’ textbooks distributed by Dean’s Office takes class as unit. Total settlement will be conducted before students’ graduation, returning the overcharge and demanding payment of the shortage, and the procedures shall be uniformly handled by class monitors. Students not paying off the book costs are unable to handle the procedures for graduation and school leaving upon graduation.
Chapter 7 Supplementary Provisions
Article 23 The Methods will take effect since the date of announcement, and the original Management Methods of Nanchang Institute of Technology for Textbooks (N.G.J.Z.[2008]No.29) will be abolished simultaneously.
Article 24 The right to interpret the Methods shall belong to Dean’s Office
July 12, 2016
