Placing Digital Material on eReserve
The Library will put journal articles, eBooks, and book chapters (up to 20% of a book) on eReserve for Amherst College courses. These materials will be made available for students to access online via your course Moodle page. The Library will not create eReserves for material that is already included in a printed course pack.
To place items on eReserve, email your course syllabi or reading lists to reserves@amherst.edu.
Please be sure that all readings include complete citation information (including page numbers) and, if possible, the dates the readings are due.
You can edit the way your eReserves look on Moodle! IT has created a great webpage to guide you through the process. Here is the link to the guide.
Important Information About eReserves
Don't pay copyright fees before you send the Library your reading list for Reserve. Let the library staff link to available online copies for eReserve first. The College should not pay for links to items already in the Library's online collections. If the material already exists in electronic format and is freely available or licensed by the Amherst College Library, a link will be created to it on the eReserves section of the course Moodle page rather than scanning it.
Longer works such as complete or large portions of books (anything over 20% of the book) cannot be scanned due to copyright restrictions. The PDFs that the library staff creates are now prepared for students to search and annotate. Linked content may not contain all the features locally scanned PDFs offer.
While many individual journal articles and book chapters in PDF form will work with digital annotation tools like Perusall, the library's licensed resources may not extend to the use of the resource within Perusall. Sources using Digital Rights Management, like many eBooks, may not be compatible with Perusall.
The link below is a pictorial representation of our workflow!
Link to PDF of Course Reserves Handout