Course Reserves
Accessing Online Course Reserce Materials
All labs on campus have the required software. To view the online reserve PDF files at home you will need to have the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 or later installed on your computer. The following information will assist you with downloading and installing the Adobe Reader software.
Downloading the Adobe Acrobat Reader:
- Go to: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html and complete the steps to download the reader
- Once you have downloaded the file, double click ont he installation icon and follow the instructions to install.
Finding Reserve Files
Start by access the Library Catalog from the main UTK Library Website at http://www.lib.utk.edu
Click on Course Reserves under Search Options on the right hand side of the main catalog page.
- Enter as much of the term as you know, e.g. English 101 or Biochem.
- Search results will be a browsable list; the second entry will be closed to the term you enter.
- ENGLISH 102 RIVERS
- SOCIAL WORK 200 SPICUZZA
- MUSIC HISTORY 380 GAY
- FORESTRY WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES 530 RAMSEY
- BOOK LOAN PROGRAM POLITICS (located in the Black Cultural Center)
- Include the word Online when browsing for an Electronic Reserves title.
e.g. Online Language of advertising.
All searches are "Browse" searches, meaning:
For "Keyword" searching, choose the Advanced Search option.
Course Name = DEPARTMENT COURSE# INSTRUCTOR
Examples:
Title:
click on the URL of the article once you find what you are looking for.
Authentication: Before viewing an online document, you will be taken to a default copyright page, click the icon at the bottom of the page to actually access the article. You will then be prompted for your NetID User name and password. Why? Fair use of copyrighted materials means that we must limit access to course reserves to University of Tennessee affiliates.
YOUR NET ID USER NAME is a unique string of characters -- usually a combination of your first initial and last name.
- Example: Melba Venearo would be mvenearo (which is pretty unique) but James Brown and Joe Brown would both be jbrown. If there is more than one, then numbers are added to make it unique (jborwn3, jbrown24, etc).
- If you have no idea of what your ph alias is you can find out easily by doing a search on the UTK web-based directory, http://directory.utk.edu.
- For more information online about ph alias, go to: http://oit.utk.edu/newnetidinfo.html.
YOUR NET ID PASSWORD is a string of numbers & letters, which allow you to access your record.
- The default password will consist of: (1) the first two letters of the month you were born in lower case, (2) the last two digits of the year you were born, and (3) the last four digits of your UT ID number. For example the birthday is September 6, 1974 and the UT ID# of 123-45-6789 will give you a password of se746789.
- For more information online about ph alias, go to: http://oit.utk.edu/newnetidinfo.html.
If you need to find out what your alias and passwrod are, you can call the Help Desk for Computing and Networking Services at 974-9900 (Students), 974-9800 (Staff/Faculty). Send questions and comments concerning Online Reserves to hodgesreserve@utk.edu.
