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Electronic Reserves: Now accepting summer courses

Posted: March 25th, 2015

The deadline for adding e-reserve readings for Summer term courses is April 15th. Please submit your readings by this date in order to ensure that they are all available at the start of the Summer semester. After that point, we will fulfill requests by date in order to ensure that readings are available on the date that they are assigned. When adding readings, please tag your readings by week so that we can prioritize requests.

Improvements

The Queen’s University Library is working on a number of improvements for Fall 2015.  They include the following:

  • The electronic reserve system will be available outside of Moodle – students will just have to login using their NetID and Password to access all readings for their course.
  • You will be able to create links to items in Ares and put them in your course syllabus or on a public webpage. These links will be permanent and will not need to be changed each time a course is offered.
  • We are also working on improving the quality of our scans. If all goes well, we may have a new scanner that is similar to those used by Google and the Internet Archive.

More information will be available over the next few months about all of these improvements.

Tips

  • Material that meets the requirements listed in our Fair Dealing policy is processed much more quickly than material that requires a transactional license.
  • Please review the linked flowchart and policy when compiling your readings to ensure that as many readings as possible meet the guidelines listed in the policy.
  • Send all full service requests and questions related to print and electronic reserves to slreserv@queensu.ca. This will ensure that all of our requests are in one place.
  • Tag your readings by week using the “instructor tag” field.  This helps your students navigate through the readings and helps us prioritize our work – ensuring that your readings are up before the week when they are required.
  • Re-use items from last semester by reactivating (or cloning) your reading lists. You can also have an entire course cloned by sending an email to slreserv@queensu.ca.

Summer and Fall Copyright Services and Workshops

Posted: August 1st, 2012

The Copyright Advisory Office is providing the following services and workshops to help course instructors prepare for the Fall term.

New copyright developments

In addition to Queen’s not signing a licence with Access Copyright, there have been a number of national developments that are relevant for course instructors. To clarify what these developments mean for education, I have posted a brief analysis on my website. This post provides a synopsis of Bill C-11 (the Copyright Modernization Act) and discussion of recent Supreme Court decisions that will have an impact on the way we use copyrighted materials on campus. See http://library.queensu.ca/library/news/story/12/07/27/copyright-update-0.

New permission services for your materials on Learning Management Systems (e.g. Moodle), other password-protected websites and print handouts

Queen’s is committed to ensuring that you can use as many materials in your course as possible. While course-packs are still available through the AMS P&CC and the Campus Bookstore, we now have a new service that will facilitate getting permissions for digitizing (scanning) print course material and articles unavailable through the Library’s digital collections or reproducing them as class handouts.

Who is this best for? If you have a small class or a limited number of items, this service can help you provide materials to your class. If you have a large class or are using a large collection of print materials, a course-pack or print library reserve is often still the best way to go.

More information about this services is available on the Copyright Advisory Office webpage.

Please submit your materials as soon as possible for the Fall term, even if you have to submit material piece-by-piece. Contact with publishers can sometimes take a while, so the sooner you contact us, the better the chance of getting permission in time (3-4 weeks before your students will use the material is ideal).

Workshops

The Copyright Advisory Office will be offering weekly question and answer sessions in Stauffer Library. These sessions are open to anyone at the University.

  • Thursday, August 2nd at 2:30
  • Wednesday, August 8th at 2:30
  • Wednesday, August 22th at 2:30
  • Thursday, August 30th at 2:30

Register for one of these workshops here: https://moodle.queensu.ca/mod/facetoface/view.php?id=99633

For in-depth information on how copyright relates to teaching materials, there is a session in the Centre for Teaching and Learning’s Teaching Development Workshop Series on Thursday, September 20th from 9:30-11:00. Registration for this workshop and upcoming September Q&A sessions will be available in the coming weeks on the following page: http://library.queensu.ca/copyright/services

OCUL Licensing Database

Posted: October 27th, 2011

Queen’s subscribes to hundreds of databases that include millions of journal articles, newspaper articles and ebooks. For each of these databases, Queen’s signs a license that allows students, faculty and staff to use the materials in these databases for different purposes. Most databases allow you to link to material, but some also allow you to include material in coursepacks and/or post materials in Learning Management Systems like Moodle.

In the past, it has been very difficult to find out what rights were included in each license, but we have now put in place a database that allows you to find out exactly what is permitted under the terms of the licensing agreements that we have with each database provider. This information is now integrated into services like Summon and the Get It! @ Queen’s links that appear when searching in Google Scholar – meaning that you will not need to search a stand-alone database to find out what you can do with specific articles.

Watch a quick video of how this new service works here:
Licensing Database 2-Minute Demo.

If you have any questions about the terms of use for these databases, please send an email to Mark Swartz at copy.right@queensu.ca.

Note: This menu will only appear for some of the databases in our collection. This is just a start – over the coming months, we will be adding Terms of Use information for all of the databases in the library electronic collection.