Request digitisation of a book chapter or journal article
A series of guides on using Reading Lists Online
This guide will show you how to request digitisation of a book chapter or journal article on your reading list. Please do not request digitisation if the library already holds the item electronically.
Contents
1. Open your reading list
- Navigate to Reading Lists Online.
- Open your reading list and click on the item you would like to be digitised.
2. Request digitisation
Follow these steps to submit your digitisation request from a book.
- Scroll down to ‘Requests’.
- Click ‘Digitisation request’. A pop-up will appear.
- Complete the form, entering the chapter details, and page numbers.
- Use the ‘Note 1’ field to add extra instructions if you need to (e.g. if you also require the end notes to be supplied).
- Click ‘SUBMIT’.
Follow these steps to submit your digitisation request from a journal.
· Scroll down to ‘Requests’.
· Click ‘Digitisation request’. A pop-up will appear
· Complete the form, entering the article details and page numbers.
· Use the ‘Note 1’ field to add Journal title, year, volume and issue number.
· Click ‘SUBMIT’.
When checking digitised book chapter requests, the team will always check if there is a suitable ebook license of the relevant book available first. If there is, we will go ahead and purchase the ebook and add it to the reading list instead. The digitisation request will then be removed. You will be able to access the ebook via an ‘View Online’ link next to the citation.
If the item isn’t held by the Library and you have added it via ‘Cite it!’ you are still able to submit a digitisation request as above. The team will secure a copyright cleared version from the British Library and purchase the item.
Your digitisation request has now been submitted to the Library. Please allow a minimum of seven working days for your digitisation request to be fulfilled. The Reading Lists Team will contact you if there are any issues with your request. Once the digitisation is ready, a ‘View Online’ link will appear next to the relevant citation.
⚠️All requests are checked for copyright compliance. Please refer to the CLA Higher Education Scanning Guidance for more information.
3. Adding previously digitised items to your list
If you have had digitised items provided in the past, please contact Reading Lists Team via uml.readinglists@manchester.ac.uk and they will add these to your list for you.
Please indicate the items you would like us to add, with the title of the extract, and your course code.
We hope you have found this guide helpful. If you have any questions you can contact the Reading Lists Team via uml.readinglists@manchester.ac.uk or 0161 306 5892.
