Sara Juel
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Web Interface Overview
The default Ares web pages are standard HTML with a DLL serving them from the Ares server. These pages can be fully customized using standard HTML and CSS. The Ares web pages can be found by defau...
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Copyright Queries
You can customize what is shown in the Reserves History grid of the Process Copyright form by editing the Copyright query in the CopyrightQuery customization key. This key contains the actual text...
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Creating Alternative Copyright Providers
Ares will store and manage your alternate copyright provider information in the Rightsholders Maintenance form. Rightsholders are alternate copyright providers (publishers, institutions, etc.) tha...
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Processing Copyright with Alternate Copyright Providers
Ares allows you to select alternate copyright providers, process rightsholder copyright requests, and store rightsholder permissions documents for viewing directly from the Item form. Alternate co...
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Current Course Copyright Field
The Current Course Copyright field is a read-only display that includes all copyright costs associated with items for the course that are not set to the copyright status of "Denied." As you process...
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Ares Release Schedule
A new version of Ares is released once a year. These major version releases include database changes and require both server and client updates. Other smaller point releases are released at other t...
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Loan Periods
Loan Periods are used and referenced several places in Ares: Reserve Staff select a Loan Period for physical Items when creating, editing, and processing Items in the client. Word Mail Merge pull...
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Creating Semesters
Semesters in Ares help staff keep track of courses and items. All semesters must have a start date, an end date, and an item addition date, which determines how early before a semester starts that...
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Configuring Course and User Loading
The Course and User Load process allows you to pre-populate Ares with course and user information, eliminating the need for Instructors to create course records and students to select courses to j...
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Course and User Loads
You can configure Ares to upload and maintain current Course data from your institution's registrar system. In order to do this, Ares uses data obtained from preformatted tab delimited .txt files ...