E-Reserves Instructions

Electronic reserves are required readings (journal articles and book chapters) that you link to your Blackboard course page for the convenience of your students.

The Library can

• Help you create links to readings that are available in ALADIN databases
• Seek permission to copy and post other readings
• Pay for permission as needed
• Scan and post readings to the Blackboard Content System

Readings must

• Be required for the entire class (not optional, suggested, etc.)
• Conform to copyright law or have the potential for copyright compliance through royalty payments

How the process works

• Send your syllabus in electronic format to library.reserves@gallaudet.edu

  The syllabus must include:

  • Your name
  • Course department, number, and section(s)
  • Semester (for example, "Fall 2006")
  • Complete citations
    • Journal articles: author(s), article title, journal title, volume, issue, date, page numbers
    • Book chapters: book author or editor, chapter author if different from book author, chapter title, book title, publisher, date, chapter page numbers

  We cannot process incomplete information.

• A librarian will tell you
  • which readings you must link from an ALADIN database to your course page. She can show you how to make links
  • which items must be posted to your Blackboard course page. The Library may already have scanned copies of these items. If not, you will be asked to provide photocopies which we will scan to PDF documents
  • any readings that cannot be copied and posted

Time frame

• The librarian will tell you about ALADIN availability and let you know what photocopies are needed within one week of receiving your syllabus
• The Library will post scanned readings to the Blackboard Content System within two weeks of receiving photocopies from you

Photocopies of each item must be

• accompanied by the title page and copyright information page
• single-sided
• 8 ½ x 11
• clear and legible
• complete (no missing pages, cut off pages, blurred pages)

Copyright compliance requirements

• Courses must be password protected
• Only students enrolled in a course may have access to its course page
• Copyright permissions are granted for one semester only. Readings posted to the Blackboard Content System are removed at the end of each semester. To post the same readings in a future semester, you must request them again.
• You may not keep readings after the end of a semester to post again as course reserves. Only the Library may post readings.
• Materials for which the copyright holder denies permission for a copy cannot be used and will be removed from the Blackboard Content System