MyReading: Getting started

Email library@hud.ac.uk with any questions about reading lists.

Subject librarians can provide MyReading training sessions for academic staff.

MyReading is the reading list system used at the University of Huddersfield.  This guide provides training and support materials to help academic staff create reading lists.

Using MyReading for reading lists is university policy however there are many more reasons than that to use it:

• Research conducted by the library has highlighted that students find MyReading beneficial to their studies.  MyReading provides a direct link to online resources such as books, journals articles and websites making it easier for students to navigate through their reading lists.
• MyReading is for more than just books, don’t forget you can add links to specialist databases and resources.MyReading makes it easy to compile a reading list for your modules with just a few clicks as you can add reading list items directly from Summon.
• Reading lists are easy to set up and maintain, and you can keep track of them all in one place instead of updating copies of your list in multiple places.
• Using MyReading means the library know what resources students are expected to read, and we can provide better access to the required materials. The library buys books based on what is added on MyReading and will create digital extracts which are added to MyReading.
• MyReading takes care of copyright for you with digital extracts. You won’t fall foul of copyright rule and regulations. Add book chapters to your list and the library will scan them and upload to MyReading.

We asked one of our academics to share his experiences with using MyReading for teaching in this short video.

MyReading works using data from ASIS and Brightspace. Reading lists for new modules will be generated from a data feed from ASIS.

Information about the module title, module leader and number of students uses ASIS data. The ASIS data is only for the current academic year until we roll over to taking a data feed for the next year, so a new empty list might get created by a previously unknown module code appearing in the overnight Brightspace extract.

Please contact the ASIS manager for your school if these details are incorrect on a reading list. Information about the module team is populated using data from Brightspace.

Please contact the Learning Technology support for your school if members of teaching staff are missing from the reading list on MyReading.

Reading lists can be accessed in two ways, either through a module on Brightspace or from Summon.

Accessing reading lists in Brightspace

In a module you will find a link to the Reading List in the Key Items drop down from the top menu. This will take you directly to the reading list for the specific module you have selected.

Accessing reading lists from Summon

On the Summon homepage at library.hud.ac.uk you will find a link to MyReading, this will take you to a homepage with an overview of all the modules you are added to as an instructor or module leader.

The library can add scanned book chapters and journal articles to your reading list where ebooks are not available. There are restrictions for this process due to copyright legislation. The library will need to check if the publication can be digitised. As standard only one chapter or 10% of each book (whichever is the greater) or one article per journal issue can be made available per module. The library can apply for publisher permission for subsequent chapters however there are normally costs involved per student on the module.

The policy of the University of Huddersfield that all extracts digitized under the terms of the CLA License should be made available through the MyReading lists, if you feel that there are valid pedagogical reasons why your extracts need to be somewhere else please contact Chris Beevers the License Co-ordinator, (c.j.beevers@hud.ac.uk, 01484 472051) to discuss your needs. However, there should be no other undeclared digitized extracts from works in copyright within Brightspace the CLA will audit the university on occasion and will be given access to Brightspace to check.

We have made a copyright mythbuster video to explain some of the key concepts.

More information about copyright and digital extracts can be found on the copyright library guide.