Swansea University uses a system called iFind Reading which links in with Canvas to make it easy for students to find resources on their Reading Lists. It also displays in the module catalogue and module maintenance.
The guide below takes you through creating a reading list. We also have a detailed iFind Reading library guide with additional information on how to use the Reading List software, as well as guidance on how to make your reading lists more inclusive, engaging, and diverse.
Request digitisation of chapters, articles, and extracts for iFind Reading lists and Canvas. To comply with the University's Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) Higher Education Licence, course instructors must not upload self-scanned copies of published content to Canvas or iFind Reading.
Suggesting a Book title for our Library Collection
The Library encourages academics to suggest titles to add to our Library's collection. Many of the titles are ordered to support active reading lists which are loaded into our reading list software - iFindReading.
The Library's collection policy is to order an e-book version as the preferred format. The Library asks that you add items to your reading lists at least 10 weeks before they are needed in order to allow time for procurement and processing. Please contact your subject team (contacts in the above Subject Team Contacts tab) if you need advice on selection of resources.
Whilst we make every effort to find an electronic version, we find that some books are simply not available electronically, or not available for libraries to buy, even when a version is available for an individual to use. Some e-book are also very expensive and so we must be mindful of budgetary constraints. The are many different licensing models too, and we need to take these into consideration when purchasing.
This access model tends to be very expensive, and because the University loses access to the resource after the time period of the purchase, we have to consider the sustainability of the model carefully.
Suggesting a Journal title for our Library Collection
You can suggest a journal to your Academic Liaison Librarian at any time for consideration. Please note that funds are limited. If you only want one or two articles from a journal for your personal research, consider ordering from Document Supply.
Take a risk managed approach to using AV material
A combination of CDPA Section 32 & Section 34 may offer the flexibility to defend screening digital works online in a restricted VLE (Canvas) for a limited timeframe. This would be restricted to registered student module groups in support of learning and teaching activities.This activity would not extend to any other circumstances.
Further information is available from the Copyright Guide.
Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988 (CDPA)
S.32 Illustration for Instruction
S.34 Performing, playing or showing work in course of activities of educational establishment
Increasingly full-text peer reviewed research articles are available through institutional and subject repositories. Open access resources can be used to find published information swiftly and often without cost. Open access material includes journal articles, scholarly and scientific monographs, educational resources, metadata, digitised material and research data.
Search via:
Disciplinary and multi disciplinary repositories
Pre-Print Servers
Preprint manuscripts are the Author's Original Manuscript (AOM) before journal peer-review. There are many online subject pre-print repositories which contain early versions of research articles. Some academic disciplines commonly use preprint repositories, e.g ArXiv, SocArXiv etc.
Open Access Books
DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books: Search for full text books.
OAPEN: OA Books Toolkit
Open Educational Resources
Swansea University Open Research Data