Division of Business
Transnational Support Services
Transnational Support Services
For issues relating to due dates or course requirements please contact:
| IGSB transnational programs: |
Materials Coordinator International Graduate School of Business Telephone: 83020908 |
| All other programs | DRS@unisa.edu.au to have your readings digitised and registered with the University Copyright Register. TSS Web and Online team will create a link in course websites direct to the Library Course E-Reader |
For issues relating to copyright, e-reserve, production of readings
contact the
Digital Resource Service at UniSA Library
Transnational Student Services staff are not resourced to assist academics with the provision of course materials. If you require administrative assistance when preparing materials please contact your school executive officer to find out if support is available.
If hardcopy materials are supplied to the DRS they need to be scanned in order to provide them as an electronic resource. The quality of the scan is directly related to the quality of the master. Click on the link to access Guidelines for producing readings masters
Download and/or printing time is usually related to the file size of the document, refer to Guidelines for producing readings masters for strategies to reduce your file size. Better quality masters often relates to lower resolution scans and smaller file sizes. If complaints continue, contact the DRS, who will endeavour to look into ways of further compressing the file without losing quality.
Printing time can also be improved if students:
Unless copyright is owned by UniSA hardcopy readings must be produced in Adelaide and shipped to the offshore location. In cases where a particular reading is required and cannot be provided digitally you may provide in hardcopy. All arrangements for the production of the hardcopies must be made by the Lecturer. If the lecturer is unable to take the readings with them arrangements may be made with TSS for shipping to the offshore location. Freighting large numbers of materials to the offshore location is cost prohibitive so the supply of hard copy readings is only considered when all other options are not available.
The supply of CD's is cost prohibitive and this option was phased out in preference of supplying links to E-Readings in the course website.
All electronic materials not subject to Digital Copyright should be placed online in dedicated program and or course websites. All materials subject to Digital Copyright must be registered with the DRS. If you chose to create CDroms this should be undertaken at your school's expense, please consult your School Executive Officer. TSS is unable to provide support for the provision of CD roms.
The library databases or other websites that provide documents in .pdf format have ownership of copyright therefore they can create the original in text format e.g (word, publisher) and then convert to .pdf resulting in a small file size. As UniSA does not have ownership of copyright we must scan the original document as a series of images and then covert to .pdf which results in a larger file size.
Please follow this link to see Summary of Digital copying rules
Electronically reproducing readings obtained from the Library’s electronic databases is in breach of our licensing agreements with the databases therefore you must not publish readings but may provide students with reference information and instruct them which database they can access this information from. Do not insert the direct link to the document. These are usually the result of a search script and are not valid when used a second time.
The Library is able to supply direct links to most database files in the Course E-Reader on request.
As individual organisations copyright their own materials in a variety of ways the DRS ruled that no materials would be accepted for reproduction electronically when they are available elsewhere on the web. In this case you should provide information in your table of contents about where students can go to access or the exact URL if available. In some circumstances the DRS may be willing to reproduce these articles on the e-reserve if you have written permission from the organisation that owns the copyright or can provide them with a URL where the organisation has stated that it is ok to reproduce electronically for educational purposes. Please note that it is not the DRS responsibility to search for this information for you.
The DRS require the following to correctly reference materials added to the e-reserve:
The DRS acts on our behalf in a number of ways:
Study Guides and Course Information booklets are printed offshore to take advantage of cheaper printing costs. It is in breach of the CAL license for universities to source copyright material here and have it printed externally and especially offshore.
All material supplied to transnational students that is subject to copyright must be provided electronically in the e-reserve and recorded on the copyright register by the DRS or provided in hardcopy and printed here.
Non compliant materials sent offshore for printing must be retrieved immediately and destroyed. The incident must be reported to the University of South Australia Copyright Officer with an indication of how many copies were produced and how many retrieved and destroyed.
Non compliant material posted to course websites without DRS approval must be removed immediately.
