How do I add online materials to Course Reserves?

Articles you’ve found online, pictures, or scans of book chapters or other physical resources should be uploaded as PDF files.  If you already have the files, you can add them yourself. Otherwise, library staff can create high quality, searchable scans that you and your students can access online. 

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Requesting a PDF or scan

1. Click on the name of the class and section you want to add files to
2. Click on “Add Materials” in the middle of the top of the page

1. Click “Place a Request With Reserves Staff”
2. Fill in the Title and Author fields, making sure to include an edition number if there are multiple publications of the book

1. Click the dropdown menu under “Type of Reserve” and select “Online Excerpt”
2. Fill in the remaining fields, making sure to indicate the pages or chapters you want scanned.  If you need anything extra, such as footnotes or appendices, let us know in the “Notes for Reserve Staff” box.

OR

If you have a copy an item you’d like us to scan for you, just bring the item to the Ask Us desk at either D. H. Hill Jr. or JB Hunt Jr. library and fill out a short form with your name, the course to which you’re adding the scan, and the pages you’d like scanned

That’s it!  We’ll take it from there!

Uploading a PDF you have yourself

1. Click on the name of the class and section you want to add files to
2. Click on “Add Materials” in the middle of the top of the page

1. Click “Add a Link Or Electronic Document”
2. Fill in the Title and Author fields
3. Add your file
4. If you’re using a PDF you’ve downloaded onto your computer, click “Choose File” under “Add a Document” and use the file browser to select the PDF you want to add.  Then click “Upload”
5. If you’re using a PDF that is only available online, use the process for adding a link listed below

A video found online, or a video file you’ve recorded or created on your computer, should be added as follows. NOTE: If you want an entire DVD put on the Reserves shelf for your students to check-out, use the process for Physical Items, NOT this process.

1. Click on the name of the class and section you want to add files to
2. Click on “Add Materials” in the middle of the top of the page
3. Click “Place a Request With Reserves Staff”
4. Fill in the Title field, and include the film director in the Author field, and the release year in the Source/Year field to the best of your knowledge
5. Click the dropdown menu under “Type of Reserve” and select “Online Excerpt”
6. Fill in the remaining fields. If you need anything extra, such as footnotes or appendices, let us know in the “Notes for Reserve Staff” box.

Online tools, company, product or academic websites you want your students to be able to access should be added as links

1. Click on the name of the class and section you want to add files to
2. Click on “Add Materials” in the middle of the top of the page
3. Click “Add a Link Or Electronic Document”
4. Fill in the Title field
5. Paste a link to the website in the “URL” field and click “Add Link”