What are e-reserves?
E-Reserves, or Electronic Reserves, are course readings and documents that your instructor has asked the Library to make available to you. These reading and documents are scanned into electronic format and placed within the specific Blackboard Course for you to access. These Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) files are viewed through a Web browser plug-in. More information.
The term “e-reserves”—short for “electronic reserves”—is commonly used to describe course readings that are digitized and made available on an academic department or library network site to students enrolled in the class, who usually each need a password to access the readings and then may download and print their own copies. Unlike traditional paper reserves, posting readings in e-reserves always requires making copies of the original materials, and e-reserve systems typically make the readings available simultaneously to all students in the class, anywhere or anytime they choose.
