Do It Yourself E-Reserves

  1. Locating Documents for E-Reserves.
    1. Locating Articles:
      1. See if the Library has access in an electronic database such as Academic Search Premier or JSTOR
        1. From library homepage http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu, click E-Journals Finder
        2. Search E-Journals Finder for the journal title
        3. See what databases have full text, and for what years
        4. NB: in some databases, you can use the URL that appears in the address bar of the browser to link back to the article. Other databases will provide a permanent (also persistent or stable) link to the article somewhere in the bibliographic record. When provided, please copy this link, not the one in the address bar of your browser.
        5. Please add the EZProxy URL to any article link for off-campus access. The EZProxy prefix is
          https://ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu/login?url=
          Thus the link to Academic Search Premier would look like this:
          https://ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu/login?url=
          http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=aph
      2. See if the article is freely available online:
        1. Google: good search tactic is to include both article title and author’s last name in search box; put the article title in quotation marks.
        2. Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com): Google and Google Scholar have different bodies of information, so it’s worth it to search both. Use same search tactic recommended above.

      Questions? Ask a reference librarian (subject specialist is best)! http://dewey.brooklyn.cuny.edu/resources/?view=specialists

    2. Locating Books, Government Documents and Non-Periodical Material:
      1. See if the library has access by checking the library catalog from library homepage http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu, click Catalog.
        1. Electronic material including e-books will show as the Electronic Resource.
        2. Locate the URL for the resource in both the Holdings and Full Record screens.
      2. Locate freely-available e-books at http://dewey.brooklyn.cuny.edu/resources/?service=ebooks
        If you are unable to find a free e-book, send the request to reserves@brooklyn.cuny.edu. Not all requests can be honored.
      3. To see if a government document is available online go to GPOAccess http://www.gpoaccess.gov For assistance with government documents, please contact Prof. Jane Cramer janec@brooklyn.cuny.edu

  2. Linking articles, e-books, other electronic documents directly to your Blackboard course site.
    1. Go to the Blackboard course site to which you will link the electronic source
    2. Click the Control Panel
    3. Choose any of the following links from the Content Areas panel
    4. Course Information
    5. Course Documents
    6. External Links
    7. Select the External Links option on the Add bar at the top of the page
    8. Enter a title for the link in the Name field
    9. Type (or paste) the URL (the web address) in the URL field. Be sure to include the http:// at the beginning
    10. Enter a set of descriptive words or sentences in the Text box, including complete bibliographic information about the article (i.e. author, title of article, journal title, volume, issue, pages, date)
    11. Click the Submit button
    12. Press OK to approve your action

    Be sure to tell your students that they will be required to authenticate with the Library’s EZ-Proxy server to link to licensed resources from off campus. The instructions for remote access to Library resources is at: http://dewey.brooklyn.cuny.edu/resources/?service=off-campus. Students can also find remote access instructions under the Library tab in Blackboard.

  3. Uploading Scanned Documents to Blackboard
    1. Logon to Blackboard
    2. Go to the course site to which you will post the reading material
    3. Click the Control Panel
    4. Choose Course Information in the Content Areas box
    5. Click the Item button on the Add bar
    6. Enter the name of your document
    7. Scroll down to Section 2
    8. Click the Browse button to find the reading material (document)
    9. Select the document
    10. Click the Submit button
    11. Click OK in the package receipt