Readings Online FAQs

• For faster access link to online content where possible
• Use the Open Athens Link Generator to create stable, authenticated links for students
• If you need assistance with linking, or don’t have a file, please select the Locate option when adding your reading and the Readings Online team will help you
• Previously published reading lists will automatically roll over to the next iteration of your subject. All you need to do is review and add/remove any readings from the list

Academic staff are responsible for ensuring that all material used for teaching is copyright compliant. Readings Online software manages copyright compliance on behalf of academic staff and ensures that teaching material complies with the requirements of s113P of the Copyright Act (Cth) 1968, which relates to educational statutory licence provisions.

Readings Online staff will:

• Check readings to make sure that they comply with the limits permitted under s113P.
• Manage the reporting requirements for material used under the statutory licence provisions. If you use Readings Online, you do not need to register your teaching material separately with the Copyright Office.
• Ensure material is correctly and fully cited. This is a legal requirement under copyright.
• Ensure that the appropriate copyright warning notices are included on teaching material.

Readings Online helps the University meet its copyright obligations, while making it quicker and easier for academic staff to make teaching material available to students.

For more information on using copyright material for teaching, refer to copyright and teaching or contact the Copyright Office.

Online content for Readings Online can be located from many sources. We recommend starting with the Library catalogue or Google Scholar.

To link to an online video, go to Readings Online from your LMS subject, and use the Add - new website reading option. For more information see adding individual readings to Readings Online.

Yes. The articles or chapters will be subject to the same copyright rules as other readings, and additionally must be requested by a staff member involved in the delivery of the subject where they will be used.

To delete any reading from a reading list, use the red trashcan icon on the right of the reading.

You will see a warning notice that the reading will no longer be available on the list. To continue, click yes.

Editing can only be done by Readings Online staff. To request changes to your readings, submit a support request containing your subject code, title of the reading and changes you would like made.

Harvard Business Review only allows links to online articles and cases created using their Harvard Business Publishing database for use in Readings Online or the LMS. All teaching staff can access this database and create links for use in Readings Online. There is a guide for teaching staff that will help you with the link creation process.

You cannot copy a subject's reading list, however you can export a subject's reading list and then import that file into another subject to create a reading list.

1. To export your readings for a subject see how to export your Readings Online collection to export your readings as a RIS file.
2. To import this RIS file and create readings for another subject see adding readings to Readings Online using RIS files.
   If you would like to edit the RIS file before importing the readings to Readings Online, import it into your citation manager, edit your readings and then export the readings from there. To import the updated RIS file to a subject in Readings Online see adding readings to Readings Online using RIS files.

Within the Canvas subject menu there is a link to Readings Online.

For assistance setting up your Readings Online link please visit the Readings Online information page and the Readings Online user guide.

In a Module you can add an External Tool link to Readings Online. This can link to individual readings within an active reading list in Readings Online.

For instructions on how to embed readings, please visit the Readings Online user guide.

LMS support for students

Readings Online is accessed through your subject in the LMS, via a Readings Online link from the subject menu or content pages. If you cannot find a link to Readings Online, please contact a member of the teaching staff for your subject and confirm with them if they are using Readings Online.

If you find a broken link in Readings Online, report the problem by submitting a support request. Please include the following information:

• Subject code
• The title of the reading
• An explanation of the error
• Screen shots of the page you started on and the error you encountered (if possible).

Readings Online works with the latest versions of the following web browsers.

For Windows:

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Edge.

For MacOS:

• Chrome
• Firefox.

Accessing Readings Online through your LMS subject page requires internet browsers to have the cookies option enabled. See the following website for instructions on how to enable cookies for your specific browser.