Reserve Collection Services
eReserve Guide for Academic Staff
What is eReserve?
What are the details of Copyright Restrictions and eReserve?
How do academic staff request material for eReserve?
What are the requirements for requesting material to be placed
on eReserve and how long will the process take?
How do academic staff link to eReserve material from Blackboard?
Contact eReserve
Request Form | Electronic Use Notice [pdf] [word] | Sample Request Form | Referencing Guide
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An online repository of high use material available 24 hours a day via the Library’s catalogue.
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Only includes published text-based material (e.g. journal articles, chapters/sections of books, conference papers etc) that contain third party copyright.
- Includes both items scanned from print format as well as links to items that are contained within the Library’s online resources.
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Items such as lecture notes, class notes and materials that are freely available on the Internet are generally NOT included.
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eReserve items will be available only for the current academic year; to re-use material for the following year, simply request a roll-over of items before ECU’s year-end close down.
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Students can access eReserve material via the Library’s catalogue and search by “unit code/name” or “lecturer’s name”. Note: a search by either of the above will retrieve items held in both print reserve and eReserve.
What are the details of Copyright Restrictions
and eReserve?
Under the Copyright Act and
the AVCC Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Part VB Licence, various restrictions
are imposed on the amount of copying which can be done for an electronic
reserve collection.
These include the following:
- 1 chapter or 10% of a book, but more if the book is out of print or out of copyright .
- 1 article per issue, but more if the articles are deemed to be of the same specific subject matter.
- Limits apply across all book editions unless the editions are markedly different.
- Limits apply per institution (i.e. across all of ECU, not per unit of study).
- The whole or part of a literary or dramatic work in a published anthology if not more than 15 pages.
Note : for material that exceeds the limit set by the Copyright Act, it is the role of the academic to obtain permission in writing before material can be put on eReserve. Where permission is required from the copyright owner, use this form.
For more information on copyright, see ECU Copyright and eReserve Copyright policy.
How do academic staff request material for
eReserve?
By email (e-reserve@ecu.edu.au),
internal mail (Addressed to “eReserve, ECU Joondalup Library”)
or through your campus library.
What are the requirements for requesting material to be placed on eReserve and how long will the process take?
Submission requirements
Format & Quality requirements
- One eReserve Request form per unit of study with full citation details for all items to enable the Library to adhere to the requirements of the Copyright Act (1968) and the Digital Amendment (2001).
- Copy of items (e.g. hardcopy, PDF on disk/attached to email): each item must have the Electronic Use Notice at the start of the article/chapter. Or indicate the source if the article is available online (e.g. Proquest, Blackwell etc).
- Full citation details must appear on the copies of items (either print or scanned) to allow students to cite material within their academic writing. Link to Referencing Guide
- Scanned items should be in Adobe Acrobat format(PDF) with recommended resolution of 250-300 dpi and file size no larger than 3 MB (larger files may be broken into smaller files).
- Print photocopies should be good quality and single sided, same orientation for all pages (either portrait or landscape) and have clearly displayed page numbers.
- Preferred format for file name would be author surname followed by first 2 words of title e.g. Smith Management practices.
Processing time
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- Processing time for eReserve depends on the format of the material
- Material in digital form (or available via our electronic resources) processed within 3 working days.
- Material requiring scanning by Library Staff (i.e. print copies) may take up to 10 working days.
- At the start of semester, eReserve processing may take up to 4 weeks.- Submissions must meet the minimum requirements for the request to be processed.
Incomplete requests will be returned.- An email confirming availability of items will be sent to you once the process has been completed. All original items will be discarded once they have been processed and uploaded into eReserve. Please keep a copy of your eReserve requests and items for future reference.
How do academic staff link to eReserve material from Blackboard?
- Locate your item in eReserve via the Library’s online catalogue.
- If your item is a scanned copy of published material you will see a log in screen. Use the URL from this screen and use it to create a link from your BlackBoard unit.
- If your item is from the Library’s online resources you will see a catalogue record with a link “Connect to article”. Use the URL from this screen to create a link from BlackBoard.
- Alternatively, a link can be made to the list of all items held in Reserve/eReserve for the unit by searching “unit code/name” and using the URL from the screen to create a link from Blackboard.
Email : e-reserve@ecu.edu.au
Telephone: 6304 3833 (ext 3833) or 6304 3832 (ext 3832)
Your campus library staff and Faculty Library teams will also be able to help you with eReserve queries.
