LLR for Academics

We can add scans of journal articles and single chapters of books to your module reading lists, allowing students to get straight to their module reading even when all physical copies of the books are out on loan. This is particularly useful when the textbook is unavailable as an e-book for purchase. The scan can be viewed by the entire student cohort simultaneously. 

Scanned pdfs should remain on the reading list and not be uploaded to individual Moodle pages. This is for copyright reasons. If you have questions, please refer to VLE Dos and Don'ts on our copyright guide or send an email to askalibrarian@lsbu.ac.uk 

What can be scanned?

Under the terms of the Copyright Licensing Agency, we are usually allowed to digitise for a given module one article from any individual journal, one chapter from any individual book, or up to 10% of the whole book (whichever is greater). 

Resources that are digitised will be reported to the Copyright Licensing Agency via Reading Lists Online. 

You can request a digitisation at any time.  

Our turn-around times:

• Completing a new scanning request for material held in the library: seven working days.
• Completing a new scanning request for material obtained from the British Library: 14 working days (subject to delivery of material from BL).

To request a digitisation:

Log in to your reading list and go to the item you would like scanned. Click the item title to open the full record. Scroll down to find the Request digitization option and fill in the details of the request. 

If the request is urgent, or if the article is for personal research rather than for a reading list, you can search for the article in the Discovery Tool using the option “Beyond LSBU”. This will give you the option to request for the article from Interlibrary Service. The turn-around time for articles is usually within 24 hours.