Put Material on Reserves

Teaching faculty at AUC may place materials on reserve, in order to ensure that students in their courses find the material when they need it.

Reserve requests should be submitted through the Online Reserve Form.

• Observe the detailed guidelines below.

• Request forms should be submitted at least 15 days before the beginning of the semester to ensure that material is available in time for classes. 

• Reserve requests are processed in the order in which they are received.

• Print materials that are not accessible at this time may be made available in part via electronic reserves, within the limits set by law. 

Guidelines

Hardcopy Books and Textbooks

Instructors are encouraged to rely on electronic materials from the vast collection of licensed databases, e-books, EKB, and from the many sites with Open Educational Resources, including the Open Textbook Library.

Additionally, LLT will do its best to:

• Purchase electronic versions of requested materials if available at a reasonable cost. Submit requests here. The Library can inquire into the availability of any electronic book title, but kindly note that electronic textbooks are rarely available to the Library for institutional access. Faculty should contact the AUC Bookstore at textbook@aucegypt.edu.
• Support faculty by identifying alternative resources. Contact us directly at library@aucegypt.edu.
• Scan or digitize print materials (within the copyright limitations): For articles and book chapters, place a scan request here.

Journal Articles

The use of journal articles for reserves is subject to copyright and licensing restrictions. Refer to the LLT copyright policy for more information.

• Print journal issues or volumes will not be placed on reserve; however, photocopies or offprints of articles may be used instead, subject to certain conditions in copyright law.

• E-journals: All publishers (except Harvard Business Review) allow the use of direct links to journal articles. 

  • Instructors may post these direct links themselves in Blackboard. Be sure to use a DOI, or ‘permanent link’, rather than the URL of the article PDF. 

Electronic Reserves

Some copyrighted material may be made available through AUC’s electronic course reserve system, in accordance with Egyptian and US law. Accordingly, the library is unable to copy or scan:

• An entire book

• An entire journal issue

Furthermore, the AUC Library will not place materials on electronic reserves if it judges that the nature, scope, or extent of the use is beyond the legal limits.

In compliance with the statutory requirement, the electronic reserves system will display on a preliminary or introductory screen a copyright notice, consistent with the notice described in section 108 of the Copyright Act.