H. Laddie Montague, Jr. Law Library Electronic Course Reserves - Policies/Procedures

All Electronic Reserves

Complete the online Electronic Reserve request form

Deliver photocopies of all materials to be scanned (see below for exceptions) to the H. Laddie Montague, Jr. Law Library Circulation desk and marked "Attention: E-reserves Staff"

Journal Articles

Book Selections

We can scan/post no more than 2 articles from any single issue of a journal or magazine*

We can scan/post no more than 15% of any single book or monograph as determined by page count

Licensed Full-text Resources

Links to External Websites/Documents

Reserves staff can create durable links to full-text articles available through a number of library-licensed resources including LexisNexis, ProQuest, and WestLaw.

Photocopies are not required for articles available through these databases.

*We may link to any number of articles in a single issue of a journal/magazine available through a licensed database.

We may create reserve links to any website or document that is freely available (i.e. does not require registration) online.

To request a link, please include the url in the Electronic Reserve Request Form

Photocopies are not required for links to external websites

Please note: we cannot be responsible for external websites/documents that are removed or relocated

Electronic Documents

We will accept .htm, .html, .doc, .rtf, .ppt and other documents in electronic format, such as course syllabi, lecture notes, sample students assignments, etc.

We prefer such documents in electronic format, rather than paper, if available. The .pdf files produced from these formats are generally of much higher quality than scanned documents

Files may be sent as email attachments to ereserves@psulias.psu.edu

• Send files in batches of no more than four files per email
• Complete the Electronic Reserve request form or send a complete citation for each reading in the body of the email
• Create logical file names that can be easily matched with the citations (e.g. authorname..pdf, title.pdf, etc.). If splitting a document into two or more files, use file names that indicate the order of the files (e.g. smitha.pdf, smithb.pdf, smithc.pdf, etc.).