Course Reserve for Off-Campus Students

The Course Reserve collection consists of assigned reading material that is expected to be in heavy demand during teaching sessions. There are two components to the service

• online material (journal articles, chapters of books, ebooks etc) which can be accessed by searching the electronic Course Reserve facility;
  
• physical material (books, DVDs, videos etc) which are located on the Ground Level of the Library. Note: Personal copies of books or folders of notes for essays and tutorials will be held behind the Service Desk.

Preferred Format for Course Reserve Material
Once lists of materials are provided to the Library by academics, items will be linked to electronic documents where possible which means students have access to material via the catalogue 24 hours a day, and can print, download or read online at any time.

For books which have multiple chapters cited, or where a whole book has been set for a particular course, or for other material which cannot be legally digitised by the University, the material is held in the physical Course Reserve Collection.

Finding Course Reserve Items
Course Reserve items can be searched through the online Course Reserve facility by the Lecturer’s name, School, Course number/name and Session. Alternatively, they can be searched by Author or Title through the Library’s catalogue. Typical catalogue holdings information will look like this:

• Electronic
  
  Location: Electronic Access
  Temporarily Shelved at Course Reserve
  Call Number: digital object
  Number of items: 1
  Status: Available
  Linked Resource: Makers of modern strategy Chapter 21, Voices from the central blue.pdf (2.73mb)
  
  
• Hard copy
  
  Location: Main Collection
  Temporarily Shelved at Course Reserve
  Call Number: HB 103 .K47 S54 1996
  Number of items: 1
  Status: Available

Further information on searching for Course Reserve items can be found in the Catalogue Tutorial.

Accessing Physical Course Reserve Items
Material in the physical Course Reserve collection is not available for loan to off-campus students, however, you can order a scanned copy of material in the collection (according to copyright restrictions).

Please request a copy via the Ask4it service. To meet Copyright requirements you may have:

• one article from an issue of a journal (or more if they are on the same subject matter);
• one chapter from a book or 10% of the total pages, whichever is greater.

Any enquires should be directed to the Ask Us Service.