Course Readings

• Provide the Course Readings tool to allow you to create a reading list based on the resources you have selected.
• Provide online access to resources wherever possible, including books, chapters, journal articles and audio/video content.
• Ensure online access is available at the time of teaching or ahead of time wherever possible.
• Enable access to materials added to readings lists after the start of the teaching period.
• Manage copyright and licensing agreement requirements.
• Provide access to all required readings via links in MyUni or for print textbooks, the Library’s High Use Collection. Required readings are those that students must read as part of the course.
• Ensure recommended readings are available in the Library’s online or print collections. Recommended readings are those that students may read.
• If not part of the Library’s collections, consider purchase of further readings. Further readings are provided to encourage students to explore.
• Work with MyUni to ensure all support materials are easy to understand and up to date.

• Use the Course Readings system to create your reading list prioritised according to required, recommended and further readings.  Add tags to item to provide instructions to the Library to help with processing more quickly.

• Students will have access to their required readings via links in MyUni, or for textbooks, through the Library’s High Use Collection.
• Students will have access to their online recommended and further readings via MyUni provided they are added to the reading list.
• Students will have access to print recommended readings through the Library’s physical collections.
• Students may have access to print further readings through the Library’s physical collections.

The Library defines a textbook as: prescribed core reading material for a course, as designated by a teaching academic and integrated into course curriculum or referred to regularly throughout a course. 

• The expectation is that students will buy textbooks required for their course.
• We have an e-preferred policy and will provide electronic versions of textbooks (where licencing permits), in preference to print.
• The Library will provide a limited number of required and recommended textbooks
  • for required resources we license up to 3 electronic copies or purchase 1 print copy per 100 students (rounded up).
  • for recommended resources we license/purchase 1 copy.

For more information, see the Library's Textbook Purchasing Guidelines.

Enrol in the Introduction to Course Readings course for further information or email us.

Yes, reading lists can be rolled over (or reused) for new teaching periods. On the Course Readings welcome page in your course, select ‘Create list from an existing list’ and search for the previous version of the course. The reading list will be rolled over to your new course.

If you are new to teaching a course and do not have access to the previous reading list, please email the Course Readings team. The team can roll over the list on your behalf.

Hit ‘Publish’ after you have edited and updated the list to make visible to students and to allow the Library to begin processing requests (e.g., move to high use or digitisation). Enrol in the Introduction to Course Readings course and view the rolling over a reading list page for more information.

This is because there is already a list for your topic. This may have been created by the Library to list High Use items, or by one of your collaborators. Add items to the existing list as needed.

We may not have you associated with the list as an instructor. Please contact us at liaisonlibs@adelaide.edu.au.

Yes. Drag the file to upload it against the citation.

NOTE: All uploaded files must comply with copyright regulations. If the file is third party material, it must be checked by the Course Readings team.

The Favourites collection is your own personal Course Readings library. Resources saved in Favourites can be reused across multiple readings lists. You can also add items to Favourites using the 'Cite it' browser tool.

See the Introduction to Course Readings course for further details.

The Library will check copyright compliance while processing your list. For more information about copyright, take a look at our Copyright Advice website - particularly the information regarding teaching purposes.

You may like to add instructions advising students which chapter to read. Enrol in the Introduction to Course Readings course and view the add instructions for students page for more information.

If you require a print book for your course, and do not need digitisation of the material, add a 'No Digitization Required' tag to the item. You can also add a tag to request to move the print item to the Library's High Use collection. See Adding requests to items for more information.

Enrol in the Introduction to Course Readings course and view the adding requests to reading list items page for more information.

Yes. Create a Course Readings list and add the textbook to your list. The textbook needs to be tagged as “Textbook”. Items tagged as a textbook are automatically moved to High Use so you don’t need to tag “Move to high use”.

Enrol in the Introduction to Course Readings course and view the add requests to reading list items page for more information.

No. Edit the citation, changing the Type to book chapter and add the chapter title.

Use the tag when the Library, or yourself, cannot supply a scan from a print source.

Your reading list may not be associated with a course. Please contact us at liaisonlibs@adelaide.edu.au.

Yes. You may add the first two in the Pages boxes of the digitisation request form. Add any more page ranges as a Note.

Yes! Click on '…' and navigate to Export. There are a range of options including Word, PDF and Excel.