Course reserves are materials (including books, disks, A/V materials, journal articles and/or photocopies, electronic resources, instructional equipment, and non-book items) chosen by the faculty to support class instruction. Access to this material is more restricted than items in general circulation.
The purpose of a reserve collection is to:
The Samuel J. Wood Library offers two different document delivery services for patrons: Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and TripSaver.
All students, faculty and staff of Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, as well as all staff of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and affiliated institutions have access to the library. To find out if your institution is affiliated, please contact the Circulation Desk: (212) 746-6050
The library is not open to the general public, or to patients of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital or their families.
When reusing an image in a presentation or publication, please remember to cite its source; images in some of the following resources may be copyrighted. (See the Library's page on resources relating to copyright and fair use.) If you are searching Google Images, the "Usage Rights" filter can help you identify images licensed for reuse.
The WCM Library Copyright Resources are designed to assist faculty and staff in negotiating the complex issues of copyright compliance in an academic environment. Unique copyright compliance requirements, for medical image sources available within the WCM Library's Electronic Resources, are detailed below.
To find consumer health materials in non-English languages, search by ethnic group or language spoken, i.e., Cambodian (group) or Khmer (language). Where possible, search by both the English name and the name in the target language (if Roman alphabetic), and use variations with and without accents and special characters, i.e., Spanish or Español or Espanol.
Open Access (OA) is literature that is available free of charge, and also free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. The move towards OA is a grass-roots response to the increasingly high cost of journals, which makes them difficult for libraries to afford and for users to access.
Copyright is a complex issue, particularly within an evolving digital environment. This page links to guidelines on course reserves, classroom copying and educational multimedia, as well as the institution's copyright policy.
