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Course Reserves Availability

Course reserves material will be made available in both physical and electronic format. Electronic course reserves include articles, book chapters, syllabi, lecture notes, etc. Physical Reserves includes books owned by the library as well as personal copies and departmental copies loaned to the library for Reserves, as well as DVDs.

Electronic Course Reserves Guidelines

Electronic files are accepted in the following formats:
  • Portable Document Format (.pdf)
  • Microsoft Word (.doc)
  • Text File (.txt)
  • HyperText Markup (.htm)
  • JPEG (.jpg)

Items placed on course reserves may require copyright clearance prior to being placed on reserve. Items that are denied permission will be inactivated from course reserves. Course Reserves staff will notify the instructor and discuss other options.

The Libraries reserve the right to decline a request based on their interpretation of the Copyright Law. A complete bibliographic citation is required for all copyrighted materials.

Library Contacts

Richter Course Reserves Staff
richter.reserves@miami.edu

Architecture Research Center
Gilda Santana
gsantana@miami.edu

Rosenstiel Library
Ann Campbell
acampbell@rsmas.miami.edu

Weeks Library
Thuong Vothang
tvothang@miami.edu

Request Materials for Course Reserves (Faculty)

It is easy to make your course materials available on uReserves. Please contact one of the following libraries with your requests:

Architecture Research Center

Law Library

Music Library

Richter Library

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Library

uReserves System (Leganto)

The library’s uReserves System is integrated into our Library System.  uReserves works directly with Blackboard/Canvas to display course reserves for students.  This system also allows faculty to create, review and update their reading list for classes directly.  The reading lists are then submitted in the system to the library for processing.  

To work with this system, log into uReserves.  

Copyright and Fair Use Guidance with Course Reserves

If you have a question about how to access an item to put on course reserves, please contact your subject librarian.

Consider Open Educational Resources for your Classes

Open Educational Resources (OER) helps students save money while providing the highest quality resources for classes.

See our list of OER resources.

Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) helps students save money while providing the highest quality resources for classes.

OER Commons

OpenStax CNX

MIT OpenCourseware

Merlot

Open Textbook Library

Faculty Personal Material Guidelines

Faculty Personal Material Guidelines