General Guidelines
- The Libraries will place materials on reserve only for non-commercial, educational use.
- Only a small portion of any copyrighted work (i.e. a chapter of a book, one article from an issue of a journal) may be accepted for electronic reserves without obtaining copyright permission. Materials that the library deems to exceed these limits will not be placed on reserve until written permission has been obtained from the copyright holder.
- Each reserve item will include a copyright notice on the first page to inform the users that the work may be protected by copyright law. All reserve materials must include appropriate citations and attributions to the source from which they were reproduced.
- Patrons may use reserve material for private study, personal reading, research, or for completing class assignments. The library will not charge a fee to patrons for using the reserve materials for these purposes.
- Course packets sold at the bookstore to be used as textbooks will not be accepted for electronic reserve purposes unless copyright permission has been secured for each item.
- Access to electronic reserve materials is limited to the instructor(s) and to the students enrolled in the course. A password is created each semester and is distributed to the students through the instructor.
- All course readings on electronic reserves will be removed from the reserve system at the conclusion of a course. Faculty may be required to obtain permission from the copyright holder if the same material is used subsequently.
- The Libraries will not place material on electronic reserve if it is judged that the purpose, nature, and the effect of a reserve request is beyond the reasonable limit of fair use. Please view the University Libraries' Decision Tree.
