Readings and resources - Flinders University Library

Providing support materials and resources in your teaching promotes the acquisition of knowledge and makes learning interesting.

The Library can help you identify, source and provide access to resources that support key teaching activities of listening, reading, watching, investigating, and practicing – different activities that help your students achieve learning outcomes. The Library supports these activities via the Flinders reading list, which is embedded in every FLO topic. Online articles, textbooks, databases, streamed videos, podcasts and websites can all be added to a list with the click of a button.

Using the Readings list, teaching staff can curate their student learning experience quickly, and students can navigate and access the resources according to their learning needs at the time that they need them.

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Finding resources for your topic

Finding the best resources for your topics is not always easy. It can be time consuming, with many databases and websites to visit and different accessibility options to review. The Library can help you find not only the most recent and accessible resources, but also a variety of material types to support the different ways in which students acquire knowledge and learn.

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Readings

Readings are the essential textbooks and reading materials assigned for a topic. The Library oversees their organisation and delivery.

Using Readings is also the easiest and most straightforward way to ensure compliance with all licences, as the Library will manage copyright compliance. Readings are accessed via your topic page in FLO.

With Readings, materials of all types - physical books, eBooks, online or digitised book chapters, scholarly articles, videos, newspaper articles, websites and more - can be assembled to create a structured, comprehensive reading list.

Create or upload your list directly in Readings and send to the Library for completion (including copyright compliance checks). Upload PDF documents in Readings, and let the Library manage copyright for you.

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Tell us about your textbook

Have you chosen a required or recommended textbook for your topic? If so, the Library and enrolled students need to know about it as soon as possible. The Library has an eBook preferred option when it comes to purchasing textbooks for students. This ensures that content is accessible to the most students wherever and whenever they study. Notifying students as soon as possible also provides time for students to purchase their own, in time for the beginning of semester.

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Have you decided on a recommended or required textbook? The Library needs to know as soon as possible. You can do this using this notification form, which will also populate the topic textbook webpage for students

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Not sure what textbook to use?
Is a textbook required? or are there other online learning materials that can be used instead?

Have a look at these guides or make use of the Library’s expertise to help you identify relevant and accessible resources that best suit your topic and learning outcomes.

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Is there an Open Education Resource textbook available? If so, you can add it to your Readings list straight away.

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Copyright

Important information regarding the use of published material for students and researchers. Learn about your rights as a creator of copyright material.

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