Finding Items on Reserve

Course Reserves are supplementary course materials that an instructor makes available to his/her students either physically in the library (print reserves) or online (electronic reserves). Examples are: books, journal articles, homework assignments, case studies, sample exams etc.

To find print reserves search the Acorn catalog by instructor, course name or course number.

To find electronic reserves login to OAK: Online Access to Knowledge, to find electronic reserves for your course listed under the E-Reserves content area.

Note: Some libraries maintain printed lists of the currently available print reserve materials. Print reserves may be photocopied or checked out of the library for short periods of time, but circulation policies vary from library to library. Each divisional library handles their print reserves somewhat differently so you may want to ask for help at your library's Circulation or Reserves department

Electronic Reserves are digitized materials that are made available to students inside and outside of the library via the campus computer network. Ereserves are typically scanned versions of print reserves or links to articles and other types of documents in full-text electronic resources. Ereserves are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from anywhere on or off campus to authorized Vanderbilt users. Ereserve documents are usually scanned in PDF format, which requires the installation of the Acrobat Reader plugin in order to read and print the files. Because of copyright restrictions some course reserve materials cannot be made available electronically.

Off-campus access to ERes requires the use of your VUnetID and password. For help with off-campus access please see: Tips for Accessing Library Resources from Outside the Library