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Journal Resources

eReserve has provided some recommendations below to assist staff who are required to enter Readings via the Admin interface. This guide originates from the University of Melbourne and uses the following references to provide recommendations:

S = Means the system requires data entry in this format
R = Recommends your Institution apply its own local information policies

Use this form for:

  1. Whole journal - a whole journal to be accessed by Students
  2. Journal excerpts - an excerpt from a journal ranging from a few pages to a whole article
  3. Conference papers - a publication bundling the proceedings of a conference
  4. Legal cases - a legal case
  5. Legislation - a Bill or Act
  6. Magazine articles - an article from a magazine
  7. Newspaper articles - an article from a newspaper
  8. Preprints - a version of a paper that precedes official publication in a journal
  9. Proceedings - a conference paper or proceeding published in a conference publication

General Hints

  • All fields should be completed using ‘Sentence Case’. Capitalise the first word of sentences and all proper nouns.R
  • Enter DK - for Don’t know
  • For file-based readings please consider the file size and type you choose to upload to eReserve Plus as end-users may not have the capacity to download large files, and especially high quality scanned copies. The resolution, colour vs b&w and file type will all have an impact on the quality and size of files.
  • It is best to check whether the item is already in the eReserve Repository before you create a new Reading so as to avoid duplicate Reading records being created




Publication (left of screen)

ONLY APPLIES TO READINGS MANAGEMENT for ADMIN USERS

Find the existing Publication in the eReserve Repository or create a new Publication by entering the following information:

Field Name Description Type Suggested Value
Name This is a title for the source publication. Wherever possible this should not include aspects such as the year of publication, volume or issue. It should describe the common name for the source publication.

Publication names must be unique.

eReserve Plus will ignore case sensitive titles but punctuation or incorrect punctuation will result in the item being treated as a separate document. If two titles from the same edition have different punctuation they will not be the same (abbreviations and spelling mistakes for example need to be picked up in the document QA review).
Text Sentence case textR

Follow what is in your catalogue or Worldcat, if relying on that.

Copy carefully what is in the text in terms of ands/ampersands and any punctuation or spelling (e.g. color vs colour).
Communication Kind The license you select from the dropdown list will depend on the jurisdiction you are in. The list will default to Print Statutory Licence in AU for all Publications.

Print Statutory Licence is the prudent choice and enables the reading requests - which are children to the source document - to have alternative communication kinds such as External Link.
Picklist Speak to your Copyright Officer if you are unsure Licence to select.R

Source Document (left of screen)

Field Name Description Type Suggested Value
Genre
(ONLY APPLIES TO READINGS MANAGEMENT for ADMIN USERS)
The reading genres for Journals are:

Bill: Proposed legislation
                                                                     
Conference: a record of a conference that includes one or more conference papers and that is published as an issue of a journal or serial publication

Legal Case: a document containing articles for a legal case

Legislation: Government legislation

Preprint: an individual paper or report published in paper or electronically prior to its publication in a journal or serial

Proceeding: a single conference presentation published in a journal or serial publication

Statute: a statute which forms legislation

Whole Journal: a serial publication issued in successive parts

The list will default to Whole Journal.
Picklist Select the relevant Journal type from the listS
Field Name Description Type Suggested Value
Communication Kind
(ONLY APPLIES TO READINGS MANAGEMENT for ADMIN USERS)
The licence you select from the dropdown list will depend on the jurisdiction you are in. The list will default to Print Statutory Licence in AU.

Selecting Print Statutory Licence at the Source Document level will give you the flexibility to distribute the reading under other Communication Kinds. So if the Reading Kind below is selected as a Link then it is distributed with a Communication Kind of ‘External Link’ which is recorded on the Reading Request.

The license you select from the dropdown list will depend on the jurisdiction you are in and relates to the Reading - you are recording the default setting for the licence that the item will be distributed under for Copyright purposes when a Request is made.

To amend the Communication Kinds for the distribution of the Reading Admin Users will need to visit the request in Request Management to make the amendment there.

Please note - only Admin Users have control over the Communication Kinds
Picklist Speak to your Copyright Officer if you are unsure what licence to select.R
Field Name Description Type Suggested Value
Journal Title Enter a title for the source document. Wherever possible this should not include aspects such as the year of publication, volume or issue. It should describe the common name for the source publication.

Advice for where to find the title:

Bill: Use the title of the proposed legislation

Conference: Use the title of the conference e.g. 2016 IEEE conference on robotics

Journal Article: Use the title of the relevant journal

Legal Case: Use the full title of abbreviation in case citation, obtained from Cardiff (legal abbreviations) (e.g. CLR = Commonwealth Law Reports)

Legislation: Use the full jurisdiction (boundary/title) of Act/Bill, e.g. Victoria

Magazine Article: Use the title from the front cover of the magazine

Newspaper Article: Use the title from the front page of the newspaper

Pre-print: Use the title from the front cover of the journal

Proceeding: Use the title from the title page of the proceeding, if none available use the title from the front cover

Whole Journal: Use the title from the front cover of the journal
Text Sentence case textR

Follow what is in your catalogue or Worldcat, if relying on that. Copy carefully what is in the text in terms of ands/ampersands and any punctuation or spelling (e.g. color vs colour).

Punctuation Rules in the Anglo American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2) can be applied.
Field Name Description Type Suggested Value
Organisation
(For file based readings only)
Enter the name of organisation, company or institution responsible for publication of the journal. Text e.g. Taylor & FrancisR

Best to copy/paste from catalogue or Worldcat, if appropriate.R

If unknown: Type n.p. (which means no publisher for some Citation Styles)

Legal Case: Where court decisions are not otherwise published enter the name of the court.
Volume
(For file based readings only)
The volume is the number assigned to a journal or a group of journals often encompassing a single year.

For legal citations the AGLC term for volume is the same as eReserve
Text e.g. 2 or Spring, JanuaryR
                                            
Legal Case: This is not required for Legal Cases and can be left blank.

Legislation: This is not required and can be left blank.

Pre-print: Preprints may not always have a volume, if this is the case use the publication year

Proceeding: For a proceedings that do not have a volume number use the year
Publication Year Enter the year the publication was made available as noted on the item

OR

enter the Copyright year whichever is available.
Number e.g. 2001, c2001, 2000-1, 2000-2001S
Field Name Description Type Suggested Value
Number
(Only required for Legislation and Legal Cases)
The number field is used when a serial publication is published by year.

In some cases there can be multiple releases during one year and if that is the case the number of the release needs to be placed in the number field.

Specifically this is outlined in AGLC Third Edition 2.2 “…If more than one volume is produced in a single year, the volume number should be included between the year and the report series abbreviation…”. So, for the 2nd volume of “Rowe v McCartney” the resulting citation would be provided: Rowe v McCartney [1976] 2 NSWLR 72.
Text e.g. 2
Identifier - ISSN The ISSN can be found in either the catalogue record of the Journal or inside the front cover of the soft copy Text e.g. 0960-085XR
DOI
(Optional)
It is useful to add a DOI to render the citation without a large URL (Digital Object Identifier) Text e.g. 10.1037R

Reading (right of screen)

Field Name Description Type Suggested Value
Reading Title Bill: Enter the title of the proposed legislation

Conference Paper: Enter the title of the individual conference paper relating to this reading

Legal Case: Enter the full title of the case

Legislation: Enter the official Act/Bill title (excluding year), e.g. Supreme Court Act

Journal Article: Enter the title of the relevant journal article

Magazine Article: Enter the title of the relevant magazine article

Newspaper Article: Enter the title of the relevant newspaper article

Pre-print: Enter the title of the relevant journal article

Proceeding: Enter the title of the relevant chapter/article

Whole Journal: It is not required when adding a Whole Journal Resource.
Text Sentence case textR

Follow what is in your catalogue or Worldcat, if relying on that. Copy carefully what is in the text in terms of ands/ampersands and any punctuation or spelling (e.g. color vs colour).
Field Name Description Type Suggested Value
Genre Bill: proposed legislation

Conference Paper: a paper from a conference

Journal Article: a document published in a journal

Legal Case: an article for a legal case

Legislation: part of a government legislative document

Magazine Article: an article published in a magazine

Newspaper Article: an article published in a newspaper

Preprint: an individual paper or report published in paper or electronically prior to its publication in a journal or serial

Proceeding: a single conference presentation published in a journal or serial publication

Statute: a statute which forms legislation

Whole Journal: a serial publication issued in successive parts
Picklist Select the relevant journal reading type from the listS
Field Name Description Type Suggested Value
Authors Use the individual or organisation names.

Not required for Whole Journals, Legal Cases or Legislation
Text People:
Author names to be entered in a string, separated by commas with surname preceding first nameS

Do not use ‘&’, ‘and’ or ‘et al’ in the author field, these will be added based on citation style chosenS

Do use a ‘.’ between initials - e.g. B.JS

Examples include:
Lacey, Michelle, Leese, James

Lacey, M.G., Leese, J

Lacey, Michelle G., Leese, James

Lacey, M.G., Leese, J., Hellawell, S., Patterson, K., Harrison, M

If non-standard characters form part of a name e.g. Swedish Ö, then it is best to enter it as a Standard O if the citation is not rendering.
                                                                                
Organisation: Name of organisation, department or groupR

Name of organisation needs to be entered in direct order as it appears on the resource.

e.g. Quality Improvement Agency, Association for Learning Technology

Institutional policies are useful on things like abbreviations e.g. Dept. vs Department. Either follow the source or have a policy of writing in full.
Field Name Description Type Suggested Value
Kind File: PDF or other file type to be uploaded

Link: The URL for the online version of the reading (or an ezproxy link where available). By selecting Link the Communication Kind on the Reading Request will automatically be communicated as ‘External Link’.

Linking to full text is about creating permanent links to online resources that go directly to the individual article or its summary. Always test the link.
Picklist Select the relevant Kind of readingS

File: The filename you use will be automatically added to eReserve and a prefix of the Course Code is added.

Your Institution may have its own file naming convention. For example,
First author surname+underscore+First word of the reading title OR AuthorSurname+underscore+Year

It’s best to avoid using the name of your course or paper in the filename as the file may be re-used across multiple courses in eReserve.

URLs: Copy and paste the full URL
e.g. http://www.example.com.au
Source URL of file and date accessed
(For file based readings only)
This is a useful piece of information if you’re trying to track down where a reading came from later on.

In NZ: there is a legal requirement if copying a file from the web - to record the source URL and the date it was accessed/retrieved
Text

Date
e.g. http://ezproxy.com.au

e.g. 28/09/2019
Field Name Description Type Suggested Value
Pages For paginated items enter the number of pages in ascending order. For non paginated items enter the word count.

N/A: Pagination is not applicable for this reading

Unknown: Pagination for the source material is unknown

Paginated: The source material is text and paginated. This includes things like modern digital-only journals.

Unacceptable page formats: e.g. 300-41, i-35, 54-48

Not Paginated: The source material is text and is excerpt (e.g. two paragraphs) or has no page numbers

Graphic: The source material is image (e.g. photo, chart, diagram, etc) and is not textual
Number Paginated: e.g. i, iii, vii-xii, 1, 6-10, AA3-5, S300-S400S

Non-paginated: e.g. 5000S

If a website link use ‘N/A’ or ‘unknown’

Legal Case: This information can be sourced from the final number in case citation.

eg. (2013) 252 CLR 480

or

[2015] HCA 46)
Field Name Description Type Suggested Value
Section
(Only required for Legal Cases)
This field is used in pinpoint referencing to be able to provide information such as line, paragraph, section etc. Text e.g. s 7 para 4

Cases: where there needs to be a reference to Section 7, enter s 7 in the section field.

Legislative Materials: where there needs to be a pinpoint reference to a section of the document, prefix the section detail with s then the section as per the AGLC rules, s 3 and reg 3.

Combinations can be provided e.g. s 7 para 4 for section 7 paragraph 4.