Open Educational Resources (OER) and Affordable Course Content (ACC)

Rather than downloading and providing a PDF to your students, it is important to provide a link directly to the resource in the Libraries' electronic resource instead.

• Some of our licensing agreements require this.
• By accessing through our website, we are able to gather data about usage of our resources and maintain statistics.

For off campus access, it is necessary to provide the Libraries' proxy link. See instructions in the box below.

In order to avoid copyright issues with re-scanning or downloading an article for your students to read, you may provide a direct link to articles or other items available through library subscription. 

Note: If you want students to access the materials from off campus, the URL should have an indication that it is for ODU users. If there is no "odu" indication in the URL, you should add the following prefix:

https://login.proxy.lib.odu.edu/login?url=

For items in library databases, there should be a "Permalink," "Stable" or "persistent" URL, or "Document URL" in the full record from the results list. Using this URL, your students will be directed to the database entry to get the PDF or html version. They can also get the citation from the database entry. If the ODU proxy is not part of the URL, you need to add it: 

e.g.,  https://login.proxy.lib.odu.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20143099

Digital object identifiers (DOIs) provide permanent access to the full-text of many of the items in our collections. If you want your students to go directly to the pdf, use the proxy prefix with the doi so that your students can access the materials from off-campus:  

e.g., https://login.proxy.lib.odu.edu/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syr070

NOTE: be sure the actual link includes the full url with both proxy and article.