Finally, faculty who have syllabi and other course materials on the World Wide Web can create links directly from their course web pages to the electronic reserve system. Accessing Electronic Reserve articles is easy. However, there are a number of minimal technical standards that users must meet. One is that users must have no less than a Netscape browser 4.5, or the latest version of Internet Explorer with java enabled in order to view articles. Another is that the user's printer set up must have the most current software installed to print at least 300dpi or better.
Users can search for readings by professor or by course name.
A small portion of the article will appear for students to view. The first page of the full article is then shown. A tool bar located just above the article has options which allow users to move through the document from page to page, to increase or decrease the screen size of the article, to print the article and to save to the student's desktop computer. This includes journal articles, conference brochures and papers, excerpts from books and possibly other materials such as newspaper clippings. Entire copies of books cannot be considered for this service due to copyright restrictions.