The Stout University Library provides course reserve services to faculty and students.  This can be in the form of paper copies of articles, personal copies of books, and items in our collection.  Faculty may also utilize the course management system, Canvas, to link to online materials.  This has the added benefit of restricting access only to people enrolled in the course.  The Library can assist with scanning so that faculty can put materials in Canvas.

Some basic guidelines:

• Faculty are responsible for conducting a fair use analysis of each work to determine if it can be used without seeking permission.
• All materials must support course-related teaching, scholarship, or research.
• Whenever possible, provide a link to an article, web site or other material that is available on the Web rather than copying it onto your web page.
• Always acknowledge the author of any work that you use. Include the copyright statement from the work.
• Generally, single isolated copies of brief items can be placed on reserve under the fair use provision.  Repeatedly putting the same article on reserve, semester after semester, is not recommended--generally this goes against the 4th fair use factor--effect on the market,
• Do not use Reserves as a substitute for coursepacks.  This would also have a deleterious effect on the market.  The University Bookstore can assist you with preparing coursepacks.
• Many copyrighted works can be accessed through the library's database licenses. Be sure to check to see if you can link to a work in a library database before you seek permission or pay a permission fee.  Our reference librarians can assist you.

Consult UW-Stout Library staff who are CC certified to use Creative Commons licenses. You can also place staff and student work into the Minds@UW digital repository:

Rebecca Kuske, Digital Archivist

Heather Stecklein, University Archivist

Bob Butterfield, Instructional Resources Director