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Electronic Reserves via Franklin

Those faculty members who are not using Blackboard may offer reserve materials electronically using the Course Reserve module of Franklin. Only Penn persons with a current, valid Penn ID may view these articles online, either in the library or from remote workstations.

Also please read:

• Submission of materials for Electronic Reserves
• Library's statement Copyright and Course Reserves.

If you have additional questions or concerns, please ask the Reserve Staff Contacts at your Library.

Access Electronic Reserve Materials in Franklin

Electronic materials are cataloged with very brief records and listed along with traditional reserve materials in the Course Reserve section of Franklin. Users may search by instructor name or course (department and course number) to locate items on reserve. Electronic materials are identified in the title index by the phrase [print & electronic] or simply [electronic] following the title statement. Course reserve materials cannot be identified through the author/title/subject/keyword searches in Franklin, which helps to limit access to all reserve materials, including personal copies of books on reserve, and hard copies of articles and other papers.

Access to electronic documents is limited to individuals currently registered on the library's circulation patron file. Faculty, staff and students of the University of Pennsylvania with current, valid Penn ID's who access the library's system through a proxy server will be prompted to enter their ID (patron barcode) and last name in order to view electronic articles.