Link instead of PDF
Low usage of online resources equals high risk of discontinuation. Therefore it’s important whether as a lecturer you upload a PDF or link directly to online resources from SDU’s e-learning platform. The library strongly encourages the use of the link method, which best ensures correct usage statistics for the databases.
As a lecturer, you help to ensure continued access to the library’s many online resources by linking directly to our licensed material from SDU’s e-learning platform. When you link to online articles and chapters in e-books instead of uploading the material as PDFs, you also avoid checking whether the different publishers allow course packs. The direct links can be added to your course plan/list of references, which will save you a lot of time.
There are also benefits to be gained for your students: By linking directly to the material, you help your students by giving them easy access to the online resources in your curriculum. When you link directly to material in different databases, students learn both that there are many different databases and how to navigate them. It improves their skills in information retrieval, so that they are well equipped to search for scientific literature for their bachelor’s or master’s thesis themselves, for example.
Not least does the library encourage you to link directly because it allows us to follow the use of the different databases. This means that we can better ensure access to relevant material as we know whether the databases we pay for are used. Low usage of a database puts it at risk of being discontinued.
See how to link: libguides.sdu.dk/ophavsret/ematerialer and read more about copyright for lecturers at SDU in this guide libguides.sdu.dk/copyright and at sdu.dk/en/bibliotek/undervisere/undervis+lovligt