Blackboard

Faculty: We’ve Updated Our Guide to Creating Article Links for Blackboard!

It’s that time of year again… you’re thinking about your syllabus for the spring semester! Linking to articles and e-book chapters on Blackboard is a great way to help your students save money on classpacks. It’s also a good way to stay in compliance with copyright law. Check out our guide to help you find and create permalinks to articles and e-books in library databases – links that will persist over time and are best for including in an online reading list. We’ve recently updated our guide because creating permalinks is now so much easier – you can do it right within Scholar OneSearch!

Faculty: Get Help Linking to Articles on Blackboard!

Linking to articles and e-book chapters on Blackboard is a great way to help your students save money on classpacks. It’s also a good way to stay in compliance with copyright law! We’ve created a new guide to help you find and create permalinks to articles and e-books in library databases – links that will persist over time and are best for including in an online reading list. Check it out here!

Faculty Please Submit Course Reserves by Aug 6

August 6.  That’s the deadline to guarantee that your assignments will be available on Reserve to your students for the fall term. It’s easy!  Faculty and TA’s, just click on the library tab in myNEU to place your Course Reserves with the library. What are Course Reserves?  Materials that faculty members ask the library to set aside for class reading.  It’s not just for reading, however!  Faculty also may set aside DVDs, CDs, and VHS for class viewing and listening. If you’re a faculty member using Blackboard, you may wish to make the course readings in your syllabus into a hotlink in addition to putting photocopies on reserve.  There’s no deadline for that!  The hotlink approach works best when: 1. The reading assignment is a journal article. 2. The library subscribes to the journal online (use our ejournal finder to check) Our web site has more information about blackboard linking and Course Reserves.