Readings Online

What can Readings Online do for you?

Readings Online is a service for academic staff. We provide :

• Electronic access to prescribed materials for students.
  • Journal articles, book sections, conference papers, images, webpages, television programs, movies.
• Copyright checking to ensure all access complies with copyright legislation.
• Easy access to available electronic course readings with one URL.

Policies

• Priority will be given to :
• Breadth Subjects
• Classes with students with sight issues.
• Lists will be dealt with on a 'first come first served' basis except for the above.
• Paper copies of items must be supplied (unless available to University of Melbourne electronically. We will link to these).
• Lists of more than 30 items may not be processed at one time to allow us to work on multiple lists at the same time.
• Lists must be provided on the spreadsheet with correct information filled in.
• Timelines :
• Material must be received 8 weeks before beginning of semester to be ready for start of semester.
• Material received after this time is NOT guaranteed to be ready for beginning of semester and will take up to 6 weeks to process.

How you get involved

• Fill in the Expression of interest form
• Fill in spreadsheet
• Provide a paper copy of all items on the list.
  • Paper copies are not required for items available via SuperSearch or internet (we will link to existing documents).
  • We cannot use paper copies of items you have paid for as electronic documents or downloaded from databases.

Readings Online staff will

• Check each item on your list to see if available electronically and link to items where possible. If not, check copyright (including possible contact with you).
• Record information required for CAL (Copyright Agency Limited) reporting.
• Scan material which is not available electronically and save items as PDF files. We OCR documents to allow disability software programs to read the content and to allow searching within the text.
• Send you one URL to your completed list of available items. You can add this to the LMS for student access.