Placing Materials on Reserve

Hard-copy materials, such as books, videos and DVDs, will be placed on shelves behind the Circulation desk and circulated within the library for specified periods of time. Please contact your library location if you have questions about placing materials on reserve.

• The Pepperdine electronic reserves (eReserves) are primarily accessed via Courses (Saki).
• Materials are only to be accessed by current Pepperdine students.
• materials are available 24/7 at no cost to students.

Please see below for information about what kinds of materials can be placed on eReserve.  

Pepperdine Libraries maintain copyright compliance as stated in the U.S. Copyright Act, Section 107. In keeping copyright compliant, the following guideline has been set: All photocopied material must include a title page or source information.

We will check the license availability of materials requested to ascertain restrictions, terms, and cost. The costs of course materials placed on eReserve are paid for by the Libraries. Faculty may requestion the following items be placed on eReserve:

• journal articles
• book chapters
• faculty-created materials with appropriate documentation
• student-created materials with appropriate documentation
• links to openly available material on other websites

Materials that cannot be placed on eReserve:

• whole books or journal issues
• multimedia items
• faculty or student-created materials without appropriate documentation
• faculty or student-created materials that contain copyrighted materials from other sources (e.g., images, charts, tables taken from other works)
• items for which you are declaring Fair Use

Faculty have two different options to place course materials on electronic reserve:

• Submit hardcopies to the Circulation Desk where Library Staff will scan the document(s) and upload them 
• E-mail electronic copies of document(s) to wil.cargioli@pepperdine.edu where Library Staff will download the documents and upload them to Courses. Please turn in the cleanest photocopies possible and also include a copy of the title page.

eReserves are linked to Courses, allowing students to view materials placed on reserve directly from Courses. Faculty can choose to retrieve a link for to eResources. For more information about this option contact Sally.Bryant@pepperdine.edu for assistance.

• All personal material on Hard-Copy reserve will be returned to you for any course not taught the following semester.
• All library materials will be returned to their original location.
• Courses' Reserve pages are automatically archived and can be unarchived when needed.