Faculty Services

For Fall 2021 the library will "soft-launch" an optional new Library Reserves service. Items listed in the Ares Library Reserves will be available as usual. For more detailed information about library Reserves and Copyright, follow the links immediately below:

The library licenses access to articles in over thirty thousand (30,000) journals. If an article is available in a library database, link directly to the article from your D2L course shell (except for Harvard Business Review articles).

Linking to journal content directly through licensed library databases absolves you of responsibility for copyright compliance for the linked content and absolves the university of potential liability for copyright infringement of that content.

Reserves Desk Items

• Library-owned items that normally can be charged out, e.g.
  • General Collection books
  • DVDs
  • videocassettes
  • compact discs
  • etc.
• Books, DVDs, VHS, CDs, etc. supplied by a faculty member

Materials Not Accepted for Reserves Desk

• Photocopied material that does not comply with copyright guidelines
• Consumable materials, such as workbooks, exercises, test booklets, etc.
• Entire issues of a periodical
• Interlibrary loan items
• Entire bound volumes of a periodical, unless approved by a Reference Librarian
• Reference Collection items, unless approved by a Reference Librarian

ARES Reserves is where professors can store copyrighted materials for class use.

To get your students from D2L to your ARES Reserves, add this URL into your course:
http://ares.ship.edu/

Log in to ARES Reserves with your Ship Email address and Password. 

• You can create new courses or clone old courses in ARES Reserves
• Your courses will be listed on your ARES homepage after you create or clone them for the current semester
• If you do not see a course you expect, please
  • Make sure you already Cloned or Created your Course(s) for this semester, then
  • Switch to Student mode
    • Search by Instructor for your course
  • If your course is not there, email libcirc@ship.edu or use Ask Us Anything for assistance.