eReserves

About eReserves

The eReserves system allows faculty to place reserve items on the web so the material is accessible to students 24 hours a day to view, download and print. Faculty who already use a web page can link it to an eReserves page which can serve as the central access point for all online reserve readings.

Advantages of eReserves include:

• Immediate 24 hour access to materials from campus, home or office
• Copyright management, including automatic printing of publisher permission letters
• No waiting for checked-out physical reserves
• Elimination of overdue fines for physical reserves
• Free printing from home or office

With the eReserves system faculty members have the opportunity to easily create a customized home page for their courses. The system accepts and displays documents in any format, including PDF, HTML, word processor files, spreadsheets, PowerPoint Presentations, and audio or video files. eReserves can be used in conjunction with course management software such as WebCT, Blackboard or Connections.

Examples of materials posted on eReserves include:

• Syllabi
• Exams
• Lecture notes
• Student papers (with student's permission)
• Government publications
• Journal articles (no more than 1 article per issue)
• Book chapters (no more than 25% of the entire book)
• Web links
• NetLibrary eBooks

Potential uses of the eReserves system include:

• Create a customized list of Library databases. Link to those databases of prime importance to your students' research needs.
• Create an interactive syllabus. You can set up folders for each week of your course and link to the documents, lecture notes, web sites, etc. that students will need to consult that week.
• Create a supplementary readings file on a topic. Place documents, web sites, and other resources in a folder for each major topic covered in the course.
• Link to netLibrary books related to your course. We have a growing collection of full-text academic books in all subject areas available through netLibrary. These ebooks can supplement your students' textbooks at no extra cost to the student (because only one user at a time may access ebooks, we do not recommend their use as the sole textbook for a course).

eReserves was made possible through student technology fees.

Getting started

Instructional videos on eReserves for faculty and eReserves for Students, provide information on how to use eReserves. Additional help can be found under the Frequently Asked Questions section below.

Instructions for enabling student access

Students just need to know that your materials can be found on eReserves under your name and that "password" will be required for access. Students will need to have Adobe Reader, Powerpoint or Powerpoint Viewer, Word or Word Viewer installed on their computers depending on what types of files you have posted.

Instructions for student access to eReserves

Your instructor will give a course password. Instructions on how to look up the course is found at How do I? Find Reserve Materials.

You will need to have Adobe Reader, Powerpoint or Powerpoint Viewer, Word or Word Viewer or other plug-ins installed on your computers depending on what types of files your instructor as posted.