This guide and the resources included within are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, except as otherwise noted. Questions and requests may be directed to Meaghan Shannon, Copyright Librarian at Queen's University: meaghan.shannon@queensu.ca.
Queen's University Library's Course Reserves service provides Queen's faculty and students with a single point of access for all course materials within onQ course sites and ensures that those course materials are copyright compliant and meet accessibility standards.
Queen's faculty are welcome to create course reading lists within the Course Reserves system or submit reading lists or syllabi to Course Reserves staff: course.reserves@queensu.ca. The Copyright Advisory Office assists with Course Reserves by conducting fair dealing assessments, ensuring that publicly accessible online content complies with section 30.04 of the Copyright Act, identifying library-licensed content and works and making persistent links available within course sites, sending authorization and permission requests to authors and copyright owners, and licensing the use of copyright-protected content and works. Permissions and licensing fees are paid by the Copyright Advisory Office - please note that any permissions or licensing fees paid by the Copyright Advisory Office are not forwarded on to Queen's faculty or students for reimbursement.
Please note that many publishers require up to 6 weeks to process permission requests and that this timeframe can be extended to 8-10 weeks when they see their volume of permission requests peak in advance of the fall and winter terms.
The Copyright Advisory Office generally starts preparing for the Fall term in May, the Winter term in mid-October, and any Spring/Summer courses in mid-February. As such, reading lists or syllabi should ideally be submitted to Course Reserves staff by the following dates:
- August 1st for the Fall term,
- December 1st for the Winter term, and
- April 1st for any Spring/Summer courses.
For more information, please see Queen's University Library's Course Reserves page.
If you have any questions about Course Reserves or need assistance, please contact the Copyright Advisory Office: qcopy@queensu.ca or Course Reserves staff: course.reserves@queensu.ca.