e-Reserve FAQs
What are E-Reserves?
Through agreements with some of our on-line vendors (ProQuest, InfoTrac, Ebscohost, JSTOR, and Emerald), Horn Library can post durable links to articles on your Blackboard course site.
What is the process for requesting E-Reserves?
You can submit citations (as full as possible, please) for E-Reserves requests to the Reserves Librarian, preferably by email (lreifler-alessi@babson.edu). The citations will be checked to see if they are available full-text from our sources, and you will be notified as to what is available. In addition, you will need to add the Reserves Librarian as a Teaching Assistant to your Blackboard course and specify where you want the links placed.
How do I add the Reserves Librarian to my Blackboard course site?
- Connect to http://blackboard.babson.edu
- Log yourself in with your Babson username and password.
- Click on the course name under "Courses in which you are teaching..." section
- Click on Control Panel(bottom left of screen)
- Under User Management section, click on Add Users
- Click ENROLL EXISTING USER
- Choose to search by User Name and enter lreifler-alessi or reserve in the text box. Click Search
- Click the checkbox next to Reifler-Alessi, Linda or reserve then click Submit
You must also give "Teaching Assistant" status so that we can add the readings for you.
- Again, under the Control Panel - User Management section, click List/Modify users
- Choose to search by User Name and enter lreifler-alessi or reserve in the text box. Click Search.
- Click on the Properties icon for Reifler-Alessi, Linda or reserve.
- Under User Role, click on Teaching Assistant, then Submit.
Can I post readings myself?
Yes, for most of our databases you can post links yourself. For links to LexisNexis Academic, please send a link request to Linda Reifler-Alessi.
Download instructions for posting links to articles.
Can I post .pdf files of articles from websites and/or library databases onto my Blackboard site?
No. Downloading pdfs off of databases and posting them onto Blackboard is a form of copyright and contract violation. You may, however, post direct links to pdfs on web sites.
Database providers pay royalties to publishers according to the number of times an article is viewed. Use of documents loaded onto sites and not linked cannot be counted.
Can I post cases on Blackboard?
No. Since copyright permissions need to be purchased for each individual who will be using the case, the library does not own any nor can we post them on Blackboard. Cases can be purchased through the Bookstore.
