Each semester, course coordinators across the University compile lists of recommended reading for individual subjects. Often these are articles and extracts from books, and traditionally they have been photocopied and bound into a single volume that the student must purchase.
Launched as a pilot project in 2007, the Readings Online service now provides free digital reading packs for over 50 subjects.
This semester, Joe Arthur and the digitisation team have scanned more than 10,000 new pages of history-related readings.
The reading packs are free to students. Students can access the Readings Online materials via the Learning Management System (LMS).
Readings Online has the potential to significantly reduce the University’s ecological footprint by reducing our printing requirements. The service enables us to better comply with copyright laws and helps to ensure that students with disabilities are not disadvantaged by delays in the digitising of required course materials.
The University Library manages both the LMS and the Readings Online service.