Electronic Course Reserves

Submitting Electronic Course Reserves

A variety of materials may be submitted as electronic course reserves and made accessible to your students, including:

• Journal articles
• Selected book chapters
• Homework solutions
• MS Word, PDF, and PowerPoint files
• Audio and video files

Materials are made available to students via UIC Library's Electronic Reserves.

You may submit a course reserve list as an email or as an email attachment to: 

• Daley Library: lib-res@uic.edu
• All LHS locations: lib-lhs-res@uic.edu

A complete citation is required.

Articles from journals not held by UIC Library must be borrowed from another library; processing time is greatly reduced if instructors provide photocopies or PDF files of requested articles.

Reserve staff will:

• scan any submitted photocopies
• post materials online
• request copyright permission for the reserve materials

Submission Deadline

Reserve submissions are accepted throughout the semester, but materials required for the first day the term must be submitted six weeks in advance.  If you are away during intercession, submit your reserve list early, even if the list is not complete. Please indicate those materials students need at the beginning of the semester so that they can be processed first.

Questions or concerns?

Please contact Reserves staff at lib-res@uic.edu or (312) 996-2719.

Copyright Guidelines for Course Reserves

Part I: Materials allowed to be placed on reserves, materials not allowed, and length of time limitations

In compliance with the Agreement on Guidelines for Classroom Copying in Not-for-Profit Educational Institutions With Respect to Books and Periodicals (H.R. 94-1476) and Section 107: Fair Use (Title 17, U.S. Code) of the Copyright Act of 1976 the following policy will be applied to copyrighted materials to be placed on reserve.

1. Portions of copyrighted materials that may be placed on reserve without obtaining copyright permission for a single class and a single semester:
   1. A chapter from a book;
   2. An article from a periodical or newspaper;
   3. A short story, essay or short poem, whether or not from a collective work;
   4. A chart, graph, diagram, drawing, cartoon or picture from a book, periodical or newspaper;
   5. Commercially produced course packs (Copyright for these items are generally secured by the vendor);
   6. Government publications.
2. Copyrighted materials that may not be placed on reserve:
   1. A photocopy of an entire book that is in print;
   2. Multiple articles from a single journal issue for a single class.
3. Length of time copyrighted materials may remain on reserve: Copyrighted materials may be placed on reserve for one semester only. If the instructor wishes to keep copyrighted materials on reserve for consecutive semesters, it is his/her responsibility to submit a new request for the upcoming semester.

Part II - Material Stipulations for Course Reserves

1. Non-copyrighted materials that may be placed on reserve:
   1. Exams;
   2. Lecture notes;
   3. Student papers
2. Materials that may not be placed on electronic reserve:
   1. Pages from works intended to be "consumable" in the course of study or teaching. These include copyrighted workbooks, exercises, standardized tests, test booklets and answer sheets.
   2. Coursepacks of any variety will not be accepted for electronic reserve.
3. The following requests require the Library to get copyright permission from the publisher:
   1. When a journal article is needed on electronic reserve for more than one semester;
   2. When multiple articles from one journal are needed for reserve;
   3. When multiple chapters from a book are needed for reserve.