Faculty Services
This page offers information about a range of services available to faculty through the library.
Course reserves are required or supplementary materials that instructors make available for short term loan through the library. Reserves can be materials from the library collection or belong to faculty. Please allow up to one week for processing. If the course reserve is not from the library, please either drop it off at the Library Service Desk during open hours or send it through intercampus mail to begin processing.
Copyright
Photocopies must comply with the Copyright Act. Please see information about distributing a short excerpt under the Fair Dealing exception in the Copyright Act in the Copyright Office's Instructor Guide or contact copyright@viu.ca for support.
Online resources
Faculty can provide online access to required or recommended course readings from websites by creating stable links to online articles and other licensed Library resources.
Questions?
Email libreserves@viu.ca for more information.
media@viu.caTo request a video in DVD or VHS format from the library's collection to show in class, place a hold using our catalogue. Video loans follow standard loan periods.
For assistance locating and requesting videos not in our collection, email media@viu.ca.
Librarians can work with faculty to provide course-integrated instruction that builds students' information literacy (or digital literacy), which is one of the pillars in VIU’s Graduate Attributes, and refers to “the ability to find and critically evaluate relevant information and its sources, and to synthesize the information with existing knowledge.” Learn more about VIU's Graduate Attributes.
Request instruction by visiting the link below and submitting the form to request a session. A librarian will follow up to discuss your course needs, learning objectives, and format options.
For more details on instruction types and formats, visit our Instruction Services page or contact your liaison librarian for course-specific support.
We offer resources, services and expertise in the area of scholarly communication, including considerations for dissemination and preservation of scholarly works; matters related to Open Access, licenses and agreements; and understanding the influence and reach of scholarly work.
Visit our Scholarly Communication page for more information and resources.
VIUSpace is the institutional repository of Vancouver Island University Library. It includes contributed works of scholarship, creative activity, and research by members of the VIU faculty and staff, and selected student works, together with digital special collections that represent the unique character of our region.
VIU is dedicated to balancing the copyright interests between creators of works and our community of faculty, students, and staff. We provide information that intructors need to manage their rights and responsibilities under the Canadian copyright law.
Please see the Instructor Copyright Guide for more information.
We offer research data management infrastructure in the context of VIU's Research Data Management Stategy.
The purpose of the RDM Strategy is to ensure that research data are preserved, kept secure and made accessible as appropriate, valuing and further enriching the work done by VIU researchers.
This strategy fulfills the first requirement of the Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy and articulates VIU’s commitment to RDM and to data management best practices at the institutional level.
Read more about research data management and the tools and services that are available.