Course Readings
Give students easy access to your course readings with Western Libraries Course Readings Service. Email your syllabus to coursereadings@uwo.ca and we'll do the rest.
The Course Readings team will:
- Scan and upload book chapters and articles
- Ensure stable links to online resources
- Place materials on short-term loan at your preferred library
- Purchase new books and e-books for the collection when available
- Assist with copyright compliance and pay clearance costs
- Support your students' accessibility needs
You can also add the Brightspace Course Readings tool to your Brightspace course sites, so your students can find the readings easily.
If you are at the Ivey Business School, contact the Business Library at buslib@ivey.ca for course readings on Learn@Ivey or Insendi.
Changes to Course Readings coming January 2027
Western Libraries is transitioning to a new platform for hosting Course Readings. Beginning January 2027, all Course Readings will be available through the new course readings platform. The current system is no longer being supported, and our access to it will end January 2027.
- Submit Course Readings requests by emailing or reading lists to coursereadings@uwo.ca.
- To prepare for the transition and ensure materials are available on the first day of class, we recommend that Course Readings requests be submitted by December 1, 2026. As always, we will do our best to get course readings in place as quickly as we can.
- You will not be able to upload your own resources to the new Course Readings system for Winter 2027. Resources must be added by library staff.
- If you are currently using the Course Readings service for full year 2026-2027 courses, all materials will be transferred to the new system in December. Any materials added after December 1, 2026 will not be automatically transferred. If you add additional resources, send a message to coursereadings@uwo.ca so that our team can manually upload the resource. Content from previous years will be migrated to the new platform, but will not be viewable by instructors. If you would like to access previous course materials, connect with coursereadings@uwo.ca.
- A Brightspace Tool for Leganto has been created. Once your course has been added to Leganto, you can link to Brightspace by following these directions.
Have questions? Email coursereadings@uwo.ca
