Readings Online FAQs

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.

• The Library will attempt to fulfill all requests for required teaching materials, where a library lendable copy is available for purchase.
• The Library will not purchase requests for recommended reading.
• A reduced number of copies will be purchased for required reading.
• We encourage subject coordinators to consider whether the whole resource is needed or if a segment or chapter is sufficient. The Readings Online team may be able to negotiate publisher permission for making more than one chapter available through Readings Online. Contact the Readings Online team for assistance.
• Your Faculty Liaison Librarian can help you navigate what to do if you have recommended readings we do not hold in our collections.
• Further information on Library collection and review processes is available on the Library website.

To delete a reading from a reading list, click on the Item menu (three dots) to the right of the reading and select Delete item. The reading will be added to trash in the reading list and can be retrieved within 30 days.

If you would like to edit any part of a reading, click on the Item menu (three dots) to the right of the reading and select Edit item. More information is available in the edit and organise your readings page.

Due to different licensing conditions, links to Harvard Business Resources cannot be added to Readings Online. Instead, a link to these learning materials must be added directly to a page in your subject’s Canvas site. To request links to Harvard Business Resources resources to be created for your subject, please email harvard-publishing@unimelb.edu.au.

Please note: Harvard Business Resource links cannot be reused from semester to semester. A new link will need to be requested each time a subject is delivered. More information is available in the Harvard Business Publishing  staff user guide.

Yes:

1. Go to the top of the reading list and click on the List menu (three dots).
2. Select Rollover list.
3. Under List name, enter the name of the course you would like to copy the read list to.
4. In Link to course, enter the subject code and select it.
5. Click Create List to finish.

Select Reading Online in the left-hand menu in your LMS subject. If the option does not appear, please go the how to add Readings Online to a LMS subject menu page.

Yes, instructions are available at add readings to an LMS page.

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.

Hover over the reading and select Full details.

Click on Links & Availability, hover over the broken link and click on it. This will mark the link as broken and send an alert to the Readings Online team. When the link has been fixed, you will receive an email notification.

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.