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Course Readings and Media Requests

This guide provides information about the NSCAD Library syllabus service.

How to Request Course Readings and Media Resources

The following instructions are intended for faculty and instructors.

In order to ensure that all readings and other library materials are available for your students in print and online, follow the checklist below

unchecked    Check the catalogue ( CATALOGUE ) before sending in Course Reserves form. 

unchecked    If a book, article, video or other item is not in the catalogue, create a New Items form

unchecked    Course reserves form link is here:  https://machform.nscad.ca/view.php?id=300768

unchecked    New items form is here:    https://machform.nscad.ca/view.php?id=325273

unchecked    Ensure that your reserves and new items lists are in MLA, APA, or Chicago format

 

You must check the catalogue to ensure items are in the library's collection.

The Course reserve request form is for print books, media items and other materials that are in the Library's collections. Reserves are kept at the Library's circulation desk for your students to use.

To request new course materials that are not owned by the library, use the New Items Request form. 

If your required course readings include chapters from print books, the library will first check if a multi-user eBook is available to purchase.

The Library only purchases eBooks and streamed videos from vendors that provide multi-user licences for academic libraries. 

If an eBook is not available, the Library can create a scan of a chapter to include in your course's Brightspace page. 

The Library provides scanned PDFs  that meet accessibility requirements whenever possible.

For copyright legislation reasons, scanned readings may only be shared through your Brightspace course site. Please see the Library’s copyright FAQ for more info: https://library.nscad.ca/copyrightpages#upload

If you are requesting course readings that constitute more than 10% of a work (monograph, anthology, journal, etc.) a transactional copyright license may be required. This can take at least 2 or more weeks to clear. 

Video and published content from platforms such as Netflix, Criterion Channel and Amazon are not licensed for academic use. 

Requests should be sent as soon as possible. If you don't yet have a finalized reading  list, send a preliminary list in the form as soon as you can. 

Please do not send a syllabus as your reading list. 

Links in Brightspace

The NSCAD Library can only provide URLs for Brightspace use to the following types of electronic resources:

  1. Licensed resources: Electronic articles and books in databases purchased by the NSCAD Library for use by the NSCAD community.  We can create proxied and persistent URLs for accessing this licensed material in Brightspace.
  2. Electronic resources where the appropriate copyright permissions have been acquired.
  3. Links to public domain and other free and open web resources.

Important Information On Copyright

For resources which the NSCAD Library does not own in print, have a license to use, or which exceed fair dealing guidelines, the appropriate permissions will be sought out.  In cases where permissions are not attainable, we will work with you to find alternatives. To learn more about copyright and fair dealing please refer to following resources: