With the help of reserve collections, teaching staff can temporarily bundle literature and information material that is relevant for the participants of their course. This can be done conventionally by means of printed media and paper copies in a reading room or electronically, for example via StudIP.
In both cases, the provision of books, copies of articles and other materials via semester apprat is subject to copyright regulations. You can find an overview on the website for copyright and library services.
Conventional course reserves contain books, copies of articles and other materials from the library's collection, which are compiled by lecturers to support a course. At the location in the Central Library (study room, entrance level) or one of the other reading rooms, the course reserve is labelled with the name of the teacher or the subject of the course.
Media from course reserves cannot be borrowed and are intended exclusively for use in the library.
Please contact the subject librarian for your course if you wish to set up a reserve collection. Please also note the guidelines on establishing reserve collections (German)
Teaching staff can also make scanned works or parts of works accessible to course participants via login-protected networks such as StudIP.
As a lecturer at the University of Passau, you have the option of having articles from journals and small parts of books from the University Library's collection digitised for use in electronic course reserves. The scanning service is only for works from the University Library's collection – for use in the electronic reserve collections.
Orders or questions can be sent via e-mail to ubinfo@uni-passau.de.
