Submit your e-reserves request using the online e-reserves request form or the Excel form. You may also print and complete a PDF Form for Print Reserves for your library and bring the form and materials to the library.

2. Grant course builder access:

A reserve staff member will need to be granted course builder access - a type of Blackboard account status that allows the holder to make certain types of changes to your course - by yourself or an OAK Tier 1+ support staff in order to post the materials to your course. The library's practice, once course builder status has been granted, is to create a content area called E-Reserves on the left side menu of the course page. The E-Reserves content area is the default location where reserves staff will upload/link your e-reserves materials.

3. Make the course available to students:

All OAK courses are by default set to the "unavailable" status, meaning that the students enrolled in the course do not automatically see the course listed when they login to OAK. The course instructor must make the course "available" to the students via the Control Panel.

4. Request copyright permission (if needed):

Instructors must submit a request for copyright permission for any OAK e-reserves materials that are copyright protected. The current policy states that the library will post the materials to the course site during the time in which copyright permission is being processed.

5. Post e-reserves materials:

Using the control panel the reserves staff will create in the E-Reserves content area a structure (folders etc.), describing each item that is uploaded or linked, and then upload the file from the library server to the course. When finished, the e-reserves staff member will notify the instructor that his/her e-reserves are posted and ready for use.

Note: Reserves staff may also assist with 1) linking e-reserves materials to other content areas of the course, 2) linking to materials in an EREs course and 3) with direct linking to articles and chapters in online journals and books.

Questions? Contact your library's e-reserves staff member.