Electronic Reserves in the Vanderbilt University Libraries

Connect to ERes at Vanderbilt

Note on Printing from ERes: When printing a pdf document, please do a test print of just a couple of pages. If the pages come out with dark and light bands, then check the "Print as image" box in the print menu window and try printing again.

Electronic Reserves services were initiated in the Fall semester of 1999 to provide electronic access to supplementary course reading "reserve" materials in support of the Vanderbilt University curriculum. Faculty may request that reserve materials for their course(s) be made available via ERes by contacting the Course Reserves Manager in their particular library. For this purpose we have created a new Electronic Reserves Request Form. Please read the instructions, complete the form and submit your request to the library.

Students may access these materials 24/7 by linking directly to the Library's ERes server. Note that a password may be required to access copyright protected course materials. Please see your instructor to obtain the course password.

The Heard Library uses the ERes electronic reserves system developed by Docutek Inc. to manage and provide access to reserve materials for Vanderbilt users either on-campus, accessing the reserve files from within the Heard Libraries, from the School of Arts and Sciences Computer Labs or from the campus dormitories. Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff using an Internet service provider (ISP) from off-campus can access ERes using EZproxy, the library's new (Fall 2000) proxy service, which requires that the user login to the service using his/her VUnet ID and password.

Tips on Accessing ERes from off-campus via EZproxy

NOTICE: New Copyright Policy as July 1, 2001...copyright permissions must be obtained for all copyright-protected electronic reserve materials. The VU Copyright Clearance Center in the General Library Building will obtain copyright permissions for electronic reserve materials. Costs for permissions will be charged back to the appropriate school (read the announcement). All ERes courses which have copyright-protected materials listed must be password protected. A course password will be assigned by the library and provided to the course instructor. Please visit the VU Copyright Clearance Services web site for further information.

Published materials (articles, book chapters, etc.) stored in the Electronic Reserves database are protected under the Copyright Laws of the United States (Title 17 U.S. Code) governing the making of photocopies of copyrighted material.

Electronic Reserve documents are often made available as Adobe PDF (portable document format) files or as links to articles in licensed online electronic resources. Access to these PDF documents is through a web browser, such as Netscape or MS Internet Explorer. Access to these materials is limited to authorized Vanderbilt users only. Reading the files online or printing a copy of the scanned document requires the installation of the Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin on your computer. Click on the button below to obtain the current version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin.