Course Reserves at Hunter College Libraries

Citations

Obtain sufficient citation information or Ask a Librarian for assistance in advance.

• Book chapters: at least chapter title, book title, year or edition. 
• Journal articles: at least article title, journal title, date or volume and issue, page numbers if original has page numbers.
• Preferred: include DOI, PMID or URL.
• Please match the titles of the submitted articles with those on your syllabus or reading lists, so that your students are able to find the appropriate readings. 

Use Digital Copies Whenever Available

• Items scanned from print are difficult to make accessible. 
• Search the Library to see if a digital copy is available or Ask a Librarian for assistance in advance.  Open access (free online) items are also acceptable.
• Provide the persistent link, also known as permalink or durable link. 
  • How to find persistent links  
• For book chapters not in HCL's online collections, contact your subject librarian and ask if an e-book is available through the Library’s vendors.  If so, the Library can often purchase these and make them available fairly quickly.  

Items Scanned from Print

If a digital copy of your reading is unavailable, scans and print items should be clean copies without any skews, discoloration from copying and scanning, or marks that cover text, such as handwriting or highlighting. 

• If your copy and the Libraries' copies (if any) are not a clean copies, you may request one via interlibrary loan.   
• The Library will accept files via the Reserves Request form, on USB, email or in print. Include typed bibliographic citations.
• For print copies, 8 ½” by 11" is preferred so that students may print on library printers. Please try to limit each item to a single page orientation, either portrait or landscape. Items that have mixed orientations will need to be adjusted after scanning and may take longer to process. 
• Larger documents must be saved as multiple files. Documents will be broken down into segments of no more than 20 pages to minimize downloading and printing time.
• As time allows, the Libraries will remediate scanned items to meet accessibility standards, such as providing equal access to assistive technology users for identifiable sections, tables, endnotes, footnotes and more.  The time to make documents scanned from print meet accessibility standards for users with disabilities is significantly longer than for born digital documents.  

PDFs Converted from Other Formats

If you have PDFs that have been converted from other formats such as Word, PowerPoint, or InDesign, provide the original instead of the PDF. It is significantly faster to make these original formats accessible and can be very difficult if they are converted to PDF.

Known Accessibility Needs

Although NY State regulation says all digital materials are required to meet accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2) when they are available to the class, if you have not received sufficient technical support for this and you know of a user with a disability who needs this, please contact Library E-reserves Team as far ahead as possible. We will prioritize remediation for accessibility of the required course readings, based on due dates.  In this case, we need citations and deadlines for readings.  Remediating scanned PDFs can take about three weeks, unless we have prior requests or extenuating circumstances.  

The Libraries' services do not replace any services or policies of Office of AccessABILITY.  Please contact them for accessibility needs. Among other things, they provide support for accessibility of any hard copy books or materials your class is using, and specialized accommodations students may need beyond WCAG 2.2.  Note that using hard copy books on print reserve or as course materials is acceptable.  Digital accessibility requirements pertain only to material that is provided to class members digitally.

If you are in OneSearch

1. Open the record for your item.
2. Choose the Permalink icon, as shown in the following image.
3. The permalink will appear below the icon

You can find persistent links (aka durable links, permalinks) available from various databases and vendors.  These are acceptable as well.

Ask a Librarian for assistance!