ReadingLists@UCL for students

Information for UCL students on how to find and use your reading lists.

Contents

• How to access your online reading list
  • Moodle
  • ReadingLists@UCL
• Using your online reading lists
  • Table of contents
  • Type Filter
  • Reading intentions
  • Personal note
  • Report a broken link
  • Exporting your list

How to access your online reading list

Moodle

If a reading list has been set up, you can go to your Moodle and access your reading list via the library resources block, which provides links to key library resources. In order to reveal the block, click on the arrow to open the block drawer.

Once opened, you will see the option to click on your reading list.

ReadingLists@UCL

Alternatively, you can access your reading list via the homepage of ReadingLists@UCL, where you can search for your list either by module code, title or lecture name. To access resources on your reading list, be sure to log in with your UCL userid and password.

Using your reading lists

Table of contents

Once you have logged in, you will most likely see that your lecturer has chosen to organise the list - by week or topic etc. Use the "Table of contents" to see all the sections at a glance. You can also sort the list by "Type". For example, you can search all the articles or chapters on a list, using the "Type" filter.

Type filter

Once you scroll down into the reading list, you will see that the title of each reading on the list is blue and hyperlinked, click on this blue link to see the following further infomation:

• Full details of the source.
• The reading and its source.
• A live link to the library catalogue for that item.
• Links to the full text reading (where available) which will be indicated by a "view online" button next to an item.

Reading intentions 

You can also indicate your "reading intentions" by clicking on the radio buttons next to the three dots that are near to each item on a list.

Indicating reading intentions will help you organise your reading by allowing you to keep track of where you are with your reading list, to plan, and to ensure you have read everything you need to for your lecture or seminar. It also saves time as you can mark up those items you are definitely not going to read, perhaps because you do not wish to do in-depth background reading on a particular aspect of a topic as it is more peripheral to your course.

As shown below, you can also click on the three dots next to an item to add a personal note, report a broken link, or export as a.RIS file. However, for this last item, see the section on how to export readings from your list further below.

Personal note

If you click on the three dots next to an item, there is a menu option to write a personal note regarding your readings. Click on that option and you will be given the opportunity to add a personal note.

When you add a personal note or reading intentions, this information is only visible to you.

Report a broken link

Click on the three dots next to an item, and select "report broken link" from the drop down, and complete the form. Providing details of your name and email address will help us communicate to you when the link is resolved.

Exporting your list

You can download to other formats by clicking on the "view and export" from the top menu. You can download to .ris, .csv, .pdf and Word formats.