Online Readings Support

Follow these steps to place your subject readings online:

Please submit all eReserve requests to reserve@csu.edu.au by June 3, 2013, to ensure they are available to students when classes resume on July 15. Requests received after June 3 will be processed, but may not be available by the start of the teaching session.

Step 1. Are you revising your subject?

Have you considered the student centred learning values of the University and the need for interactive and flexible learning elements?

Moving Your Subject Online: an outline of Library Support.
Contact your Faculty Liaison Librarian to discover other up to date literature and video resources that are available online. The library also has resources to develop and extend your student's Information Literacy.
Consult with your schools Educational Designer for flexible learning support for your subject.

Step 2. Find an online copy of your article or book

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Contact the Faculty Liaison Librarians for further assistance.

Step 3. Linking to Electronic Resources

Create Links to Articles

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Create Links to Resources page for more instructions.

Create Links to eBooks

Before using eBooks in Required Reading Lists contact the Faculty Liaison Librarians for advice on Terms and Conditions of use.

Some prescribed texts may also be available as eBooks, but access limits may not suit their use by students as a prescribed text. The Library does not purchase eBooks for this purpose and cannot guarantee the level of access required for a prescribed text.

Students are expected to purchase their own copy of a prescribed text: see the Collection Development Policy.

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Create Links to Resources page for more instructions.

Linking to Freely Available Websites

To link to websites, highlight and copy the link in your browser's address bar. This can be pasted into a Word document or web page.

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Step 4. What about Copyright?

How to use Resources in the online teaching environment.
The Interact Copyright Guidelines provides FAQs regarding the use of non-CSU material for teaching, the majority of which should be accessed by embedding links in the subject materials.
Further copyright information can be found at www.csu.edu.au/copyright or by contacting the Copyright Coordinator.
The Library will only include material in its Reserve collection (print or electronic) that does not infringe copyright.

Further Information

If you require further assistance please contact library staff using the Ask a Question Web Form.
For more information on Copyright contact Kerry Peterson.

Step 5. Do you need to put your Book of Readings online?

Subject Coordinators should send a list of the contents of their book of required readings to reserve@csu.edu.au before the advertised eReserve cut off date to ensure availability for the start of session. The list of readings should be submitted in Word format.

The Library will:

search for the readings online and, if held, supply links to online journal articles or eBooks
liaise with the Division of Student Learning (DSL) to add scanned readings to eReserve if not available online

Please email lists of readings to reserve@csu.edu.au

Step 6. Scanned copies of documents (eReserve) not already available online.

What is eReserve?

eReserve is:

a collection of scanned electronic copies requested by subject coordinators to support subjects
Copyright compliant online access to readings such as articles, portions or chapters of books that are published only in print.
accessible via Primo Search and current CSU login and password.
not for articles or book chapters that are available electronically

Please Note

eReserve:

material is removed at the end of each year according to copyright requirements
items from previous sessions can be reinstated if you email the subject code or individual reading details to reserve@csu.edu.au before the commencement of each session.
allow at least 15 working days for completion of requests in periods of high demand.

How Do I get Started?

Firstly, could the book or article be available electronically?

Check your reading list for items that could be available online, and use the instructions to create a link to them.

What do I do about scanning?

Print items in our collection
At least 15 working days before the required date, email a completed eReserve Request Form.

Personal copies to be scanned
At least 15 working days before the required date, deliver or send via internal mail any personal items for scanning, accompanied by a completed eReserve Request Form to the Library eReserve Team.

Interlibrary Loan material when material is not available in CSU library collections.
Please email a completed eReserve Request Form. Library staff will place the Interlibrary Loan requests for eReserve items.

Please note:

All items scanned from print require full APA standard referencing.
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Can I make print material , eg. books or kits, available for short-use in the Library?

Reserve materials are those that have been placed onto short-term use in the Library and held at the Library Loans Desk.
Use the Reserve Request Form to request items to be placed on Reserve.
Books of Subject readings are to be placed in eReserve, not on Reserve

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