If you're planning to use only a small amount of a textbook...
Consider working with your librarian to provide access through the library. Here are a few options to consider:
- A chapter or two of a book can usually be scanned and put on course reserves.
- You could also put a print copy of the book on course reserves.
- If the library has access to that book as an ebook, your students can generally download a PDF version of a few individual chapters.
If you're planning to use an entire book...
- Is this a key work in your discipline? Should students have access to this book for more than a few months or years? If so, then ask your students to rent or purchase the text.
- See if the library has access or can get access to an ebook version of the book. As a general rule, only one person can access a library ebook at once. However, your librarian can often get a license to allow multiple people to access the book at once.
- Consider providing ebook access to that book through Inclusive Access.
If you're planning to use an open textbook or other OER...
- In most cases, you can link directly to the open textbook or resource from Blackboard. However, you may want to consider offering print versions of the open textbook for sale through the College Book Store. If that's something of interest, please contact Laura Harris for more details.
If you're planning to use newspaper, magazine, or journal articles...
- If the article is recent, and freely available online, you can link directly to that article. However, if you think access to the article may go away at some point in the future, consider looking for and linking to the article using the Library databases.
- You can also make the article available using course reserves.
- We recommend that you do not upload an article you downloaded as a doctoral student, or at a previous job - that's a grey area in terms of copyright. Using the Library options is a safer option in that regard.
If you're planning to use video...
