Teaching Staff E-Reserve FAQ's
Who do I contact to arrange to have information available on E-Reserve?
Contact the E-Reserve staff in the Library: Iwona Rohoza
How do I access E-Reserve?
You can access E-Reserve from the link on the Library home page. Only CDU students and staff can access E-Reserve. Authentication (login and password) is required.
How is it organised?
E-Reserve is organised as follows: articles can be selected by Keyword, Title, Author, Unit Code, Lecturer, Year or Date or by Titles a-z, Author, Unit Code, Lecture, Year and Date list.
What about copyright?
The licence that the University holds allows the creation of electronic copies of print materials under the conditions set down by the Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act 2000 (Cth).
What is permitted under digital copying?
The Copyright Act 1968 limits the amount of material that may be copied and communicated under a statutory licence from any one work.
For making readings available online these limits are:
- For a book, 10% of the total text providing that the copy contains only the whole or part of a single chapter
- For a journal, one article from an issue, unless all the articles copied relate to the same specific subject matter
Amendments to the Copyright Act covering digital copying include a strict limit on the portion of a book you can make available online. If any lecturer digitises a chapter of a book and makes this available online, no other person in the university can make another part of the same work available online in compliance of the Part VB licence until this first part is taken down. This restriction does not apply to articles from journals; they are still restricted on a per course basis.
The Library will not include material in the E-Reserve collection (print or electronic) that it considers breaches the Act.
How do I send material to E-Reserve?
- Email articles (PDF or word only) as an attachment to: Iwona Rohoza
- Arrange for printed articles, brochures, chapters of books, journal articles to be scanned and converted to PDF. If you have the facilities to do this yourself please scan and email to Iwona Rohoza
Note: print copies of articles will only be accepted if appropriate scanning facilities are not available to you.
The following information must be included in the email message accompanying the attachment.
- Full citation for the book chapter (book author and chapter's author if different, chapter title, book title, edition, publisher name, publication date, and page numbers)
- Full citation for the article (author, title, journal title, volume, issue, date, and page numbers)
- Lecturer’s name
- Unit code
- Unit name
- Number of students enrolled in subject (approximate)
- Date when item should be removed from E-Reserve
What are the publishing standards for E-Reserve
- Electronic files of items should be supplied as PDF files created using Adobe Acrobat 4.0 ready to upload
- The file of a scanned article must contain only one item, not a compilation of single pages
- The maximum file size is 4Mb (Note: pictures and diagrams take up considerable file space)
- The best resolution is 200-300dpi
- Sufficient information to identify the article should be scanned as part of the article. This would include the title page and verso of the title page of a book when a chapter or part is scanned
- The text of the article should be straight on the page and horizontal
- The font size for text files should be12pt
How long does it take to process an E-Reserve item?
The Library requires a minimum two weeks to catalogue, record copyright details and upload E-Reserve materials. Academic staff members are encouraged to forward E-Reserve materials prior to the beginning of semester.
For further information and assistance contact Iwona Rohoza
