Electronic Scanorder Application (ESA)

The Electronic Scanorder Application (ESA) is a digitisation service provided by Bayreuth University Library for university teachers who would like to offer their students an electronic reserve shelf. ESA can be used by all employees of the university with a bt-ID. After a simple first time registration in ESA the user is offered an ESA-button in the detailed view for a publication in the Library Catalogue. With this button the user can directly place an order.

The scans will be delivered as pdf-files. They can only be downloaded from within the university network or from off campus via VPN.

Copy Right Law

For works protected by copyright, the legal basis for this offer is the currently applicable copyright law. It is the responsibility of the lecturers to ensure that the legal copyright regulations are observed in the further distribution of the electronic documents. Lecturers must ensure that only the participants of the course for which the digital copy is being created can access copyright-protected documents. Further information can be found in the order form for scan orders.

Placing an order

First select the purpose of use (“research” or “teaching”) and the format (“article or book chapter” or “book”). The required bibliographic information is entered in the following input form. Mandatory fields are marked with an *. If you want to scan from your own source, the corresponding option must be checked. In this case, you will be asked to print out the order after completing the order and submit it together with the original source to the circulation desk at the Central Library.

Contact

If you have any questions please contact us: esa@uni-bayreuth.de.