Within three days of placing their order and “ideally within 24 hours,” Doyle said, students will receive an e-mail telling them their order is available for pickup at the Science Center.

The Printing and Publication service has been redoubling its publicity efforts for the project. In about 10 days they will begin their third door drop campaign, and they have put up posters and ads in all the major newspapers describing the new system of coursepack ordering and its merits.

“Honest to God, we really hope this is going to go over well with the students,” Doyle said.

Last year’s coursepack coordinator, Geri Barney, said that she is “excited that it’s going to be online to reduce the students’ frustrations.”

But the change does not fix what some students see as the biggest problem with source books—price.

Tenzin Dickyi ’06 said that she gets her coursepacks from the library because they are too expensive to buy.

This complaint will not be ameliorated by the new system, Doyle said, because coursepack prices have never been related to the distribution system. Rather, she said, the prices are due to the cost of purchasing copyrights and producing the actual books.

Students can expect to be directed by their teachers next semester to www.hpps.harvard.edu/coursepacks, the website which will house the coursepack ordering system effective at the end of January.