Library Staff immediately see that eReserve Plus will save them many hours of work.

Managing copyright, digital learning resources and reading lists at an educational institution doesn’t need to be a mountain of work.

In preparing for a new semester or study period, staff across an academic institution prepare the materials students will use in their coursework. For librarians, this often means processing the reading lists for a wide range of courses and subject areas.

When handled manually, this can be an incredible drain on resources, one that can take weeks to complete. On top of that, diligence is required to make sure that the institution is in compliance with all copyright reporting obligations.

Fortunately, the right tools can help librarians manage these priorities in a streamlined system that ensures efficiency, accuracy and regulatory standards are being met.

Every semester, librarians are presented with requests for access to copyright materials by teaching staff. They must then spend weeks of work time checking each reading list against other requests, existing licenses and copyright allowances, which takes up a great deal of time and effort – especially when done manually.

To make the process easier for everyone involved, eReserve Plus takes down the silos separating each area and puts them all on the same automated workflow. Instead of receiving materials requests in different formats at different times, all submissions are handled through the eReserve Plus FastTrack approval system.

eReserve Plus FastTrack automatically checks material
requests against existing databases and subscriptions,
flagging any irregularities for simple, manual review. Typically 80% of materials are made immediately available to students. Through such automation, eReserve Plus significantly reduces the time and effort required from library staff members.

By reviewing existing license data, the system also helps
prevent costs that stem from duplicate purchases of materials that have already been acquired under licence agreements. Consistency in digital asset management provides efficiency benefits across the entire institution.

Library integration with eReserve Plus provides a number of

• Support for catalogue and discovery systems
• More effective utilisation of existing materials
• Increased ability to leverage existing library resources

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: