For further information, contact the Library's Reserve Supervisor on: (08) 9266 7572 or email: reserve@curtin.edu.au
For other Curtin libraries, please contact the relevant Library.
Use this form to submit a request for print or online materials to be included in Reserve.
Submitting books/AV to the print reserve collection
Submitting E-Reserve documents
Transferring documents electronically
Copyright & license compliance
Linking to E-Reserve from WebCT/online courses
Remote students
Timelines
You can submit requests for books and AV to go into Reserve for your Units by email to reserve@curtin.edu.au or in person at the Enquiries Desk on level 2 of the library.
If you are submitting items for print Reserve please be sure to include Author, Title and edition details for the book. Please also include your name, the Unit Name(s) and Unit Number(s) for which the item is being submitted. Reserve staff will then make arrangements for these items to be added to the Reserve collection.
If the items are not already held within the library collection we will purchase these items for you (this may take some time so the sooner you let us know the sooner the items will be available for your students).
Don’t forget, if you only want one chapter of a book you can arrange to have this put in E-Reserve.
If the material is held within the Curtin University Library collections, use our online form to submit requests for print or online materials to be included in Reserve. Alternatively you can email your submission to reserve@curtin.edu.au. It is not necessary to supply the hard copies of material in this instance as we will obtain and process the material for you.
Be sure to include Author, Title of chapter/article, volume number (where applicable), year and month (where applicable) and source information (name of book/journal and if taken from a database, please include name of database).
Please include your name Unit Name(s) and Unit Number(s) to which the articles being supplied relate.
Reserve staff will then make arrangements for these documents to be added to E-Reserve.
Please note the only databases that can be used in E-Reserve are Proquest, Wiley InterScience, JSTOR, Factiva and ScienceDirect but the vendors of most scholarly databases provided by the Library do not permit scanning or downloading of articles for the purposes of E-Reserve and therefore they should not be emailed to Reserve staff. Please just provide us with the bibliographic details of these items that you require in E-Reserve.
If the material is not held within the Curtin University Library collections, these will need to be supplied to us in a hard copy.
If the required documents are already in electronic form but are too big to be emailed and you wish to supply them to Reserve, they can be electronically transferred to the Transfer folder for processing by Reserve staff.
Please note that electronic documents taken from web pages and databases should not be sent to Reserve. Instead, email us the bibliographic detail of the item at reserve@curtin.edu.au and we will assess the ability to include the material on E-Reserve.
In order to electronically transfer items, create a folder on your local drive (ensuring the folder is correctly named as shown below).
Place the required documents in the folder.
Then copy and paste this folder into the E-Reserve area of your PC's Network Neighborhood
(i.e. Network Neighborhood / Entire Network / NetWare Services / Netware Servers / Jaden / Transfer / E-Reserve).
Include in the name of your folder:
Send an alerting email message to: reserve@curtin.edu.au
Please note the following:
If you teach two (or more) units and the same article/chapter is to be used by students of multiple unites, please advise us of the Unit Name and Number of all the units. Reserve staff will then ensure that the document is listed in E-Reserve for all the necessary units.
All documents supplied to Curtin University Library for E-Reserve must comply with the terms of the University's Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) license. Reserve staff will advise you if there are copyright problems with any items you submit.
In general you may include for each Unit in E-Reserve one article from an issue of a journal or one paper from a conference whose proceedings are published regularly. You may include one chapter or 10% of a book (whichever is greater), or one paper from a once-only conference, provided no part of the book or proceedings has already been included in E-Reserve or other Curtin website.
In some circumstances you may be able to include more e.g. from anthologies, journal issues on the same topic, unpublished works, works no longer commercially available etc. For advice, consult Reserve staff.
(If you or Curtin University hold the copyright to any document you are supplying for E-Reserve, indicate this on the document or in your accompanying email.)
Full-text articles from scholarly databases are generally covered by contract provisions rather than Australian copyright legislation. You must NOT download or scan articles from these databases to supply them for E-Reserve. Instead provide us with the citation of the article and Reserve staff will make arrangements for the article to be placed on E-Reserve.
To link to an E-Reserve document, use:
http://eres.lis.curtin.edu.au/cgi-bin/gw?url=dc
followed by the document's DC number. Please use only these url formats.
To correctly identify the link required, it is recommended that you email the library record to yourself via the Reserve Catalogue:
By capturing this URL, you will have the link for your WebCT/online unit.
http://opac.library.curtin.edu.au/F
This will take students to the Curtin University Library's catalogue's Welcome screen, where they will need to select Reserve Collection then input either their lecturer's name, unit title or unit number (e.g. 05698) to retrieve a list of all Reserve items for that unit/lecturer.
If you have students in remote areas/overseas, please advise the Reserve Supervisor on (08) 9266 7572 or email: reserve@curtin.edu.au as such students may have special needs.
Although documents for E-Reserve can be accepted at any time, at busy times of year it is necessary to allow time for staff to process the many documents being submitted. Reserve staff will contact you at the end of each semester to confirm whether you wish to withdraw or retain E-Reserve documents for your Unit(s). If you wish to withdraw or replace a document during semester, contact Reserve staff.
