Faculty want to quickly create reading lists and get on with teaching avoiding difficult copyright processes

One of the most frustrating issues for educators is that they have many demands on their time that affect the time they can put aside to do what they do best – teach. While eReserve Plus doesn’t have the answer to every strain on teachers’ time, it does have a solution for the ponderous processes of reading list creation, digital asset management and the copyright approval process.

The biggest roadblocks in creating reading lists and getting them approved are the lack of standardisation, difficulty in assessing copyright compliance and reliance on disconnected manual processes – factors that have the potential to create slowdowns across the entire workflow.

The right tools can put the entire workflow on a better path, fostering a swifter, more flexible approach that provides students with the most engaging materials and helps academic institutions keep in line with relevant copyright obligations.

eReserve Plus accomplishes this through robust automation capabilities. By reducing the need for time-consuming manual processes, eReserve Plus ensures that faculty can easily generate or re-use reading lists and have them approved at much greater speeds.

• Ease of use
  Thanks to intuitive drag-and-drop tools, educators can quickly generate reading list requests, and order, categorise and structure them without difficulty.
• Ability to reuse materials
  Faculty can use rollover features to review materials they used in earlier classes, quickly and efficiently reusing them each teaching period.
• Improved approval process
  As eReserve Plus removes a great deal of manual processes around materials requests, copyright request management and reading list creation is is sped up dramatically. This ensures that faculty can provide students with their readings faster than ever.
  In fact, thanks to automated workflow functionality, eReserve Plus can process over 74 per cent of reading list requests without the need for additional manual efforts.

• Integration with learning management systems
  eReserve Plus connects with existing learning management systems, with support for all major platforms. This makes discovery and digital asset management hassle-free, giving faculty the ability to find materials, create citations, add new materials and manage student access to copyrighted and other learning content.
• Contextual Links
  The eReserve resource linking feature enables links to be embedded inside LMS content. These resource links ensure appropriate counting for copyright purposes and allows faculty to place learning resources inside course content for pedagogically appropriate placement.

With these capabilities, eReserve Plus creates a seamless experience for students and educators alike.

Why choose eReserve?

At eReserve, we strive to provide each customer the attention they deserve – a capability that we hold in the highest esteem. With this focus, and the speed and agility of eReserve Plus, we leverage the power of automation to ease the burden of reading list creation, management and reporting on faculty, library and copyright staff – at a price that doesn’t break the budget and delivers fast return on investment.

By reducing the time and effort that goes into reading list and copyright management across all sectors of an academic institution, eReserve Plus usually pays for itself in well under a single year. In fact, eReserve Plus customers have reported more than 70 percent reductions in manual processing times for reading lists and copyright reports – all told, this adds up to weeks of time per year for all staff.

eReserve Plus is extraordinarily flexible, making it an easy fit with the license arrangements and systems already in place at a number of institutions. Incredibly agile, it is able to integrate with major library and learning management system, including: