The Reading List service provides unit conveners with a convenient way of making reading material available within their Canvas page to facilitate student access. Library staff assist by making high quality scans of original documents ie chapters or excerpts from texts, and monitor copyright across all units.
Copyright limitations per unit in each teaching period
Books: One chapter or 10% (whichever is greater) of an edition.
Journals: One article from each issue, or more than one if it is for the same research topic.
Note that we are not permitted to upload different sections of a document sequentially to avoid the copyright limits.
If you need to use additional material from the same document, Library staff may be able to:
- Order more copies of the physical book for the Short Loan collection
- Purchase or subscribe to the ebook edition (if available)
- Scan the chapter from a different edition (if available)
- Scan an alternate reading of your choice
- Contact the publisher of out-of-print books and get written permission to reproduce more of the document (requires some lead time).
More information:
Guidance on creating a Reading List.
Contact the UCLearn support team via ServiceDesk@canberra.edu.au or attend a virtual drop-in.