Submitting Reserve Materials: Overview & Instructions

Overview

Fogler Library offers hardcopy and electronic reserves (e-reserves). E-reserves provide 24/7 access to course material and your home pages via the URSUS catalog. ERes proprietary software protects intellectual property and copyrighted materials, access to e-reserves through URSUS as usual, but a password is required to retrieve scanned materials.

Copyright

Fogler Library follows the "Fair Use" provision of the Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use determinations involve weighing four factors: purpose and character, nature of copyrighted work, amount used, and market effect.

Know Your Copy Rights (PDF 282KB) by the Association of Research Libraries. Refer to the section entitled "Fair Use - Weigh Your Rights".

Is it Protected by Copyright? by Michael Brewer & the ALA Office for Information Technology Policy.

By adhering to the recommendations in the sources (above) we can place materials favoring Fair Use on reserve and avoid submissions likely to be challenged for copyright infringement. It is important to understand that suitability for Fair Use is determined on an item-by-item basis.

Copyright Law of the United States by the U.S. Copyright Office

• Allow six weeks for the purchase of material not owned by Fogler and for processing. Check URSUS to see if we own an item to be submitted. Neither branch library nor Interlibrary loan items are placed on reserve. Required textbooks are not purchased for reserve. 
• Include your syllabus.
• Include complete citations for all materials.
• Entire books or journals are neither photocopied nor scanned.
• E-reserves are usually made by OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software and quality of submitted documents makes a tremendous difference in processing time. Provide single-sided, first generation copies with no black margins for scanning. Crisp, clean copies facilitate scanning. Reserve staff will scan materials for you. In addition to scanned documents, generally PDF (Acrobat Reader required), we accept documents in other formats including Word, Excel, GIF, HTML, JPEG, audio, and video. We also accept links to websites. 

• Personal copies are placed on Reserve at your own risk. 
• Use online form, PDF (23K) form, e-mail, mail, or come to the Reserve desk. To place material on e-reserves indicate on the submission form how you will deliver your file, or provide the address to link your course related home-page.

• Instructors receive notification when materials are ready for students. 
• Every course using e-reserves is assigned a password required to access online materials.

• Check URSUS before going to Reserve desk. Determine the format (i.e., ELECTRONIC ACCESS or hardcopy) and its availability. Some items are e-reserves only and hardcopy items may be in use by another patron. When requesting hardcopy items, we need the exact title (as listed in URSUS) to retrieve it. Course number and your name are used to view your course listing of titles. 
• Password required (lowercase letters, no spaces) to access e-reserves.
• "Cookies-enable" InternetExplorer to access e-reserves: Open browser, click "Tools", click "Internet Options", click "Privacy" tab, drag slider to "Low", and click "OK". 
• See Using Reserve or view the PDF (72K). 

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