Mount Allison University Libraries and Archives

Did You Know?

An increasing number of scholarly and peer-reviewed articles are freely available in open-access journals. The Directory of Open Access Journals covers over 8,000 of these journals.

For more information, visit the Library's Open Access Collections page.

Library Chat

You may ask a question and chat with a librarian at the Research Help Desk whenever the Research Help Desk is open.

Service hours are posted on the Library Hours page.

Course Reserves: Information for Faculty Members

Placing Physical Items on Reserve
Linking to Digital Items through Course Reserve

Placing Physical Items (books, articles, films, etc.) on Reserve

To ensure that all students in your class have access to certain materials, whether library resources or your own personal resources, you can have these materials placed on Reserve at the library for loan periods ranging from 30 minutes to 7 days.

Materials placed on Reserve are searchable in the library catalogue by instructor name and by course name and number. Course reserve material is also searchable by keyword, title and author.

To place item(s) on Course Reserve, contact Access Services or simply complete one of the following online forms:

Please allow at least 3 working days for processing. For assistance contact Access Services.

Photocopying guidelines and restrictions: See the University’s Copyright – Fair Dealing Policy and the Mount Allison University Guidelines for Copying (updated April 2011 – revisions pending).

Linking to Digital Items (including certain online articles and ebooks) through Course Reserve

To ensure that all students in your class have access to certain online articles and e-books, direct links to these resources may be made available through the “Course Reserves” module of the library catalogue.

Please note that links may only be made to open access materials† or to articles, e-books or other online resources for which the library has licensed access.*
To request that digital items be made accessible "on reserve," please contact Access Services.

* Licensed library materials include our Electronic Book Collections and the contents of databases listed on the Indexes & Databases page, as well as certain individual online journal titles accessible from the Library Catalogue.
To find out if the library subscribes to a particular journal, use the Mount Allison Library Journal Finder.

† Open access here refers to scholarly literature that is freely accessible on the public Internet without individual or institutional subscription. For additional information and more complete definitions of open access, please see the Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2001, and the Berlin Declaration of Open Access, 2003.
Links to selected resources for searching and accessing Open Access scholarly materials are available on the Library's Open Access Collections page.
As with print resources, please allow at least 3 working days for processing.