Using the Library Catalogue (Omni) to request articles for Course Reserves

*You must have a Course Reserves account and have already created the course in order to add an item to it from Omni.

*You must be logged in to Omni to see the “Send to Course Reserves” option(s).

  1. Sign in to Omni.
  2. Perform an article search.
Screen capture of the library catalogue showing the user as logged in.
Screen capture of the library catalogue showing an e-journal article search result.
  1. Click on an article to view the full display.
  2. Click on “Links” from the left-side menu.
    • Available “Send to” options will be listed. In this case we see the Book option as well as E-Article. Please ignore the book option for articles.
Screen capture of the library catalogue showing a detailed item record for a journal article and the "Send to Course reserves (E article)" option under Links.
  1.  Click on “Send to Course reserves (E-Article)”.
    • The Course Reserves logon page opens in a new tab.
Screen capture of the Course Reserves login page.
  1. Log in with your Waterloo (WatIAM) username and password.
    • The corresponding item request form opens and auto-populates with metadata from the catalogue record.
Screen capture of the Journal Article (Electronic) request form populated with data from the catalogue record.
  1.  Select how the requested material will be supplied.
  2. Select the course to add the item to.
    • This is why the course needs to be created ahead of time.
Screen capture of the Course Reserves article request form showing supply options and list of courses to add the article to.
  1.  Click the “Submit Item” button.
    • The item request will be added to the select course(s).
Screen capture showing the article added to a course reserves list and confirmation message that the request was successfully submitted.

As long as you stay logged in to Course Reserves and Omni, you can continue to add more items using the “Send to” options without having to log in again each time. 

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