Reserve collections contain books, article copies and other materials from the library holdings which have been compiled as course material by teaching staff. In the collection area of the Central Library (in the study room) or in one of the other reading rooms, the reserve collection is marked with the name of the lecturer or the course subject. Media from reserve collections cannot be borrowed and are intended exclusively for use in the library.
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.
According to the German Copyright Act, lecturers may not distribute paper copies or otherwise make them available to all participants of a course. There are, however, two exceptions:
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)
The copyright laws were changed on 1 March 2018. Please visit the copyright pages of our website for further details.
Please note that the above information does not constitute legally binding advice but is merely an indication of the legal framework and copyright practice at the University of Passau.
In order to ensure compliance with §52a, you should link to e-book chapters and e-journal articles rather than upload them outright. This can be done from the virtual learning environments (e.g. Stud.IP) or electronic reserve collections, and you can even design the link in such a way that University members can access the links from outside the university computer network by using their ZIM credentials. More about linking e-resources
Scanned works or excerpts may be made available to course participants in login-protected networks such as Stud.IP for the duration of the course; however it would be unlawful to make them available permanently. The lecturer who uploads the copyright-protected media is responsible for ensuring compliance with the copyright laws. More about linking e-resources.
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.
