MSW Program
Off-Campus Weekend Programs
Course Information
Course Materials
eReserves
- Course readers are a collection of articles selected by the instructor to supplement reading from texts.
- Course readers are available electronically via the Mugar Library library.bu.edu or courseinfo.bu.edu.
- Articles from readers can be downloaded onto your computer and printed out as needed.
- To access course readers, students need their login name, Kerberos password, and must be registered for the course.
- Course readers are available via e-resources through the Mugar Library.
Course readers are available via e-resources through the Mugar Library.
- Create a folder (suggested location: on your desktop) for the course (i.e. HB 720). This will allow you to save the articles onto your desktop and read them or print them at a latter date.
- From your chosen browser [Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox are recommended] go to the following URL: http://library.bu.edu - This will take you to the Boston University Library Web Catalog.
- Under "Reserve Services" click on "By Course Number."
- In the course number search box, type "SSW." - This will take you to a page listing only the School of Social Work courses which have online, electronic copies of required articles have attached
- Click on your course number to view the available articles.
- Once you are viewing the article listings, you can sort the list of available articles. The default setting sorts the list alphabetical by title, but by clicking on the "Author" button, the list will sort itself by the author's last name. Be aware that if the article's citation is incomplete, and there is no author associated with the given article, such "no author" articles will be at the very end of the sorted list.
- When you have found the article that you wish to view or print, click on the title.
- You will be prompted to give a password. Write ssw and click submit.
- One of two things will happen at this point: either Adobe's Acrobat Reader will immediately engage, and the PDF of the article will appear on your screen - or you will be shown a page of bibliographic information that lists the available items. From this bibliographic page all you need to do is click on the underlined title [in capitalized letters] of the article to call up the PDF. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat please download it for free.
- Besides being able to read the article on-line, you can also make a print or disc copy for yourself. To do either of these you must use the Adobe Reader command bar, which is the bar located immediately above the article's text, rather than the Microsoft bar (which is located at the top of the screen). Save the article onto your desktop by clicking the disk icon on the top left.
- When you are finished viewing an article, you may exit by clicking the "Back" button two or three times to go back to the SSW course listings.
*Note - You can either print the article immediately or save it to your hard drive or a disk/CD-Rom for printing later.
We will assist you should you not have the required computer knowledge and we would appreciate it if you would inform us of your needs prior to the beginning of the semester.
