Monash University Library Digitisation Centre The Digitisation Centre The Monash University Library’s Digitisation Centre offers a service to academics who want to support or enhance.
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Monash University Library Digitisation Centre The Digitisation Centre The Monash University Library’s Digitisation Centre offers a service to academics who want to support or enhance their course materials with digital reproductions of excerpts from commercially published monographs, textbooks and journals. The Digitisation Centre University policy to centralize licensed digital copying of copyright protected material: Manage licensed digital copying. Comply with the copyright law. Central repository – secure online access for all Monash staff and students. Copying Limits - 1 Journals One article from a journal issue. Two or more articles if both on the same specific topic. Limited by subject. Copying Limits - 2 Books and other published works one chapter or 10% of the total pages from a published work, whichever is greater. Only one part of the work can be available online at any one time. Limit applies to the whole university. Digitisation Process Scanned as black and white image with a resolution of 300 dots per inch. Saved as a Postscript Document Format (PDF) file: Easy to view and print Tamper proof Limitations Image file = Large file size. File size increases in proportion with the number of pages. Think carefully about the number of pages needed. Good for text and diagrams. Poor for detailed pictures and other complex images. No Colour or high definition black and white images - due to excessive file sizes. Flexible Access - 1 All files are stored on the Library’s image server. Available online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Simultaneous access by multiple users. Access to files is protected by AuthCate. Adobe Acrobat Reader – free download. Flexible Access- 2 The PDF file can be linked to directly from a WebCT page. URL for the file is emailed to you when the request is complete. Or searchable on Voyager catalogue by Author, Title, Citation and Course Code. Requesting Digitisation - 1 To request a digital copy you must complete a request form – available online in PDF, word and RTF formats at www.lib.monash.edu.au/dcentre Please fill out the request form completely and accurately. Requesting Digitisation - 2 For a large number of requests, attach a reading list to single request form. Please ensure correct citation details for each item on the list. Prefer original documents over photocopies. Originals will be returned. Requesting Digitisation - 3 Can request digitisation by four methods: 1. Contact the Reserve staff at your nearest Monash Library Site - request digitisation. 2. Email. 3. Internal Mail. 4. Deliver request directly to nearest library site. Document Delivery Always advise the digitisation centre if you are submitting a photocopy obtained through Document Delivery Services. The library needs to obtain another copy to avoid placing you in breach of your Doc Del undertaking. Contact Website: www.lib.monash.edu.au/dcentre Mail: Digitisation Centre Matheson Library Clayton Phone: +61 3 990 59290 Email: [email protected]