Reserve - course readings
Course readings are put on Reserve in both electronic and print formats. Not all courses
have material available electronically.
Search for course readings
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How do I find Reserve items in the catalogue?
Your lecturer may link to Reserve items directly from WebCT, or tell you to look them up in the Library catalogue:
- Go to the University of Sydney Library Homepage, http://www.library.usyd.edu.au
- Click Catalogue:
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- For a list of Reserve items, click the Reserve tab to search by Unit of Study, Course Code, or Lecturer Name.
- Find individual articles with a Title search.
To search by Unit of Study, Course Code, or Lecturer Name:
- Click the Reserve tab.
- A Unit of Study search is pre-selected.
- Enter the course name: eg. Renaissance and Reformation 1498-1648, or enter the course code, eg ARHT 1001
- Click Submit
- The course record will be opened listing all items for that course.
- Click on the record (i.e. the blue underlined title) you require.
- The full record for the item displays.
- For hard-copy material, check the location information.
- To access an electronic item, click "Connect to the fulltext"
- The fulltext of the
document will open on the screen in PDF (Adobe page image) format.
Note:Use the the Acrobat Print button to print. - Note: If you are off-campus you will be prompted to login with your UniKey
- Click Lecturer to search by Lecturer Name.
- Type the name in this format: Lastname, Firstname.
- The Lecturer's course(s) will be displayed
- Click the course you require
- Reserve items for that course will be displayed.
- Click the Title tab.
- Enter the title of the article.
- Submit
- The catalogue record of the article will display on the screen
- To view electronic Reserve items off-campus, you will need to login with your UniKey.
- About off-campus access to Reserve
- Problems downloading Reserve items?
- Problems printing Reserve items?
OR
To search by article title
Problems accessing the electronic full-text from off-campus?
As electronic Reserve items are displayed in PDF format, you may need
to download and install the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view a
document. Downloading instructions are available at;
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html