Faculty Guidelines for placing material on E-Reserves
Please allow up to one week to process requests. During peak times, processing may take longer.
Course instructors may use Blackboard, Stony Brook University's course management system, to allow students access to course readings 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For further information, go to Blackboard.
If you want reserve staff to add library material to your course, you will need to give course builder privileges to the appropriate library for that course. (See Adding a Library as a Course Builder.) Then, complete the E-Reserves Request Form to have material added. Access to the documents in E-Reserves will be limited to faculty and students registered for the course. When documents are added to Blackboard by the library, they will be placed in the Content Area in the Blackboard course designated by the instructor, such as "Course Documents" or "E-reserves" in the left navigation bar.
What items are acceptable for E-Reserves course requests:
At this time, the only items accepted will be articles from journals owned by the library or supplied by you; a chapter from a book; and music pieces from sound recordings for Music Department classes and seminars, based on Fair Use copyright guidelines for classroom use. Include complete citations for each required item in order to have your requests processed accurately. Reserve staff will not place coursepacks or personally created anthologies, class notes, papers or tests on E-Reserves.
How to Submit your E-Reserves course requests:
You may process your requests by completing the E-Reserves Request Form.
You may submit your requests by hand delivering hard copies to the appropriate library, ensuring they are of high quality and legible. For Music Library course reserves, faculty must supply their own photocopies and a duplicate copy of each article to be placed on e-reserve.
Copyright law places some restrictions on the use of copyrighted materials, particularly use of Electronic Reserves. Course packs will not be accepted for Reserves. For more information, see
Copyright Policies and Guidelines for Course Reserves.
For information about electronic reserves, please contact the staff member from the appropriate library as listed below:
