About Electronic Reserves

How To Use Electronic Reserves

Access to ERes will require your UW NetID.  If you are a Cascadia or UW student, faculty, or staff member, you will need your UW NetID for access.  If you do not have a UW NetID, please find instructions at:

http://www.cascadia.ctc.edu/uwnetid.asp (Cascadia students, faculty, and staff)

http://www.washington.edu/computing/uwnetid/ (UW students, faculty, and staff)

1. Open a web browser, such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer. You can do this from any public terminal on campus, or from a work or home computer if you have Internet access there.

2. In the browser’s "address" window, type:

https://eres.bothell.washington.edu/

and press the ‘enter’ or ‘return’ key on your keyboard.

You can also access the Electronic Reserves page from the Campus Library homepage - http://www.uwb.edu/library/

3.  Click on the Electronic Reserves and Course Materials link.

         Search for your course by Department or Faculty name using the pull-down menu and click on the 'go' key .

         Click on the link for your course.

         After reading the copyright statement, click on the 'accept' key.

         Find the article you want to read or download and click on its link.

8. The file will download (which might take a few minutes, or longer) in "PDF" (portable document format), which you can open only with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Most campus terminals have this application. If you need it for your home or work computer, you can download it for free at:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Adobe Acrobat Reader is also included on UWICK, the UW Internet Connectivity Kit. (UWB only)

If you're doing e-reserves from home you can free up your phone line sooner by downloading documents to your hard drive and viewing/printing offline:

Click on the 'save' icon on the upper left corner of the article.

A 'save-as' box will appear on the screen.

Name the file and save the "link" (the document) to your hard drive.

9.  Printing electronic reserves in the Campus Library can be VERY slow the first weeks of the term. Please be patient, and print only what you need for the first week or two. If you try to print all of your reserve readings at once you might have to wait as long as an hour for your printing to be completed.  Printing electronic reserves in the Campus Library will cost .10 cents per side with a Copy Card.  

Contact the Campus Library (425-352-5340) if you have problems or questions.

General Information About E-Reserves

Why did the  Library develop electronic reserves?

Better access to material: available 24 hours a day from home. Available from any terminal in the Campus Library or Computer Lab.

With paper copies we are only allowed to provide one copy for every ten students. Students often had to come back to the Library if an item was checked out. There were also long lines at the Circulation Desk and our two copy machines.

No reserve fines for electronic reserves! Reserve fines accrue quickly ($2.50 the first hour and 50 cents per hour thereafter)

You do not need to have the UW Connectivity Kit to access these readings -- if you have another Internet service provider you will still be able to get to your readings.

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