Electronic Course Reserve (ECR): Information for Instructors
Selected print materials such as articles, chapters, quizzes, and notes can be made available to students in PDF format via HuskyCT for 24/7 access. Students must be enrolled in participating courses. Note: Babbidge Library staff handle ECR.
How to Place Materials in ECR
Allow at least three weeks of lead time during the first few weeks of the semester.
- Obtain your NetID and password. (You probably already have it.)
- Request a HuskyCT course.
- Fill out the Reserve Request form with complete citations for each article or chapter you are requesting. Print out the receipt (you will need it later). Observe guidelines and restrictions below.
- Materials to be scanned may be delivered to the
Babbidge Library in one of the following ways:
a. Drop materials off at the iDesk on the Plaza level of the Babbidge Library. Include a copy of the receipt returned when you submitted the Reserve Request form. Here are Babbidge Library hours.
b. Email or Snail Mail materials to Babbidge Library Reserve staff along with a copy of the receipt returned when you submitted the Reserve Request form.
Guidelines and Restrictions
- Please remember, the initial quality of the paper image is the largest determinant in the quality of the final product! If you supply us with the material, please submit the best copy or original in your possession.
- Follow these guidelines to comply with copyright policy on scanned copies:
- Journals - one article per journal issue or 15% of the issue, whichever is greater.
- If you provide copies from the print journal, and the copyright symbol is not on the first page of the article, be sure to include the page with the publisher information from the front of the issue.
- Printouts of articles from UConn Library owned databases cannot be used. Most of the time we can link directly to the article so be sure to include the complete citation (and the URL if you have it...put it in the "Special info/publisher" field) on the Reserve Request form.
- Books - one chapter or 15% of the book, whichever is greater.
- If you provide copies from the book be sure to include the title page and the page with the copyyright symbol.
- Click here for more in depth copyright information.
Materials that exceed these suggestions will be reviewed by library staff, as time and processing procedures permit, for inclusion in course reserve in light of the four factors of fair use to limit the University's liability for possible copyright infringement.
- Course anthologies cannot be placed in eReserve due to copyright restrictions.
- Personal copies must be owned in their original format, i.e., you own a copy of book or are a subscriber to the journal. Possession of a photocopy does not constitute ownership in the original format.
- Student papers placed on eReserve must be accompanied by a signed release form.
- Selections obtained through InterLibrary Loan, borrowed, or photocopied by you from another Library's holdings or from a colleague require permission from the publisher and payment of copyright fees.
- The Library will seek permission and pay reasonable fees.
- Material will be scanned and placed in HuskyCT while awaiting permission.
- Should permission be denied we will notify you and the material will be removed from HuskyCT.
Note:
- Music & Dramatic Arts Library staff do not handle ECR requests. Please direct requests to Babbidge Library reserve staff.
- These instructions were adapted from the Babbidge Library's pages, Putting Articles/Chapters in HuskyCT - ECR.
- For DAR, see Digital Audio Reserve: Information for Instructors.
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