Digitisation Service

Introduction

Lecturers may wish to consider making available electronically extracts from books or journals from heavily used course materials. Digitisation is useful when classes are large, the course has distance learners, or where material is out of print.

This guide is aimed at helping you to use the Library & Learning Centre Digitisation Service to provide these extracts. It gives an overview of the service and outlines the procedures for placing your requests for material to be digitised. A Digitisation Request Form should be completed for each required extract and submitted to LLC Liaison.

Contact LLC Liaison with any queries regarding the operation of the licence.

"The provision of digitised material to our international group of Distance Learning students has been one of the key services that has contributed greatly to their learning process. Through this system the students have access to the most relevant and current academic literature related to the issues discussed in each of the DL modules that is otherwise only available in hard copy or unavailable from existing Library e-resources.

Through the years the Centre has received very positive feedback from the students regarding the usefulness of the digitised core reading material and we hope we can offer the same services for years to come." -- Janeth Warden-Fernandez, Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, Postgraduate School of Management and Policy.

"For my part, the digitised readings certainly made a positive impact on student performance. This was particularly so in seminars, where easier access to core readings made it much easier for students to come prepared. And, of course, students could no longer account for their lack of preparation by complaining that they had not been able to get hold of the readings!" -- Dr William Smith, School of Humanities.