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ERes Electronic Reserve: Faculty

About ERes

ERes is the BMCC Library's electronic reserves system. With ERes, course materials are available on the web anytime, day or night.

Why Use ERes?

  • Materials are available 24 hours a day- 7 days a week.
  • Your site can feature: journal articles, book chapters, syllabi, assignments, PowerPoint presentations, Websites, multimedia and streaming video from the library’s collection.
  • Students can view, download or print reserve materials from off-campus.
  • Multiple users may access the same document simultaneously.
  • All class sites are password protected to support copyright compliance.

How to Submit Materials

  • Fill out an Electronic Reserve Request form at the Circulation desk in the Library (S-400) or print the form.

  • There are 3 ways to submit the materials to the library:
    1. In person: Bring to the Circulation Desk. Files may also be submitted on CD-Rom or Flash drive.
    2. E-mail: Flor Hernandez at flhernandez@bmcc.cuny.edu Please include your name, department, semester, course title and course number.
    3. Fax: 212-748-7466, attn: Flor Hernandez, E-Reserves.

Tip: The clearer the photocopy, the better it will display on the web.

Copyright and Limitations

The library abides by the Copyright Fair Use guidelines for electronic records as interpreted by Rules of Thumb for Digitizing and Using Others' Works in Electronic Reserves.

Using these guidelines and Four Factor Fair Use Test, we have adopted the following limitations:

  • One article per journal issue, per class, per semester.
  • One chapter per book, per class, per semester or less than 10% of a work, whichever is smaller.
  • Up to 10% of a book content per class, per semester (books with no chapter headings).

Additionally, a limit of 30 articles will be scanned per class, per semester and a limit of 5 library videos may be added, per course, per semester.

How ERes Works

Streaming Video on ERes

Have a required video your students must watch for your class, but not enough time to show it in class? Now, we can upload those videos to your ERes coursepage, so students can watch them anytime, day or night!

Limits and Guidelines

  • Videos must be owned by you, or by the BMCC Library.
  • Videos must be official, purchased copies (not off-air recordings or dubbed tapes).
  • A limit of 5 videos may be used, each semester.