Course Reserves Reading Lists

You can add other faculty, a teaching assistant, or staff member as a collaborator on the creation or management of your reading list.

1. Click List info at the top of the page.
2. Under Collaborators, click Manage collaborators.

4. Click + Add collaborators.
5. Search for the person you would like to add and select their name.
6. Select the new collaborator's permission levels:

• List owner: can add or remove other collaborators, edit the list, and delete the list
• Can edit list: can edit the list but cannot add or remove collaborators or delete the list

7. Click Save.

Note: When you add a collaborator, they will receive an email telling them they were added to the list.

Add a section

1. Click + Add → New section.
2. Enter the section Title (e.g., Week 1) and any other details.
3. Click Add.

Edit a section

Tags may be used as a quick way to communicate information about a citation to students.

1. Click the Item menu ellipsis → Edit item.
2. Select the Item actions tab.
3. Under Tags, select Required, Recommended, or Optional.

4. Click Save.

1. Click the Item menu ellipsis → Edit item.
2.  Select the Item actions tab.
3. Enter the Due date or select the calendar icon to select the date. Click Save.

Notes can be used to provide students with additional information about a resource, such as specific chapters to read or segments of a video to watch.

1. Click the Item menu ellipsis → Edit item.
2. Select the Item actions tab.
3. Under Information for students, enter your note. Click Save.

You can save items to your Favorites list to make them easier to find again and add to other lists. Your Favorites list isn't visible to others.

1. Click Favorites on the left of the screen.

2. Follow the instructions in Step 3 to add items to Favorites.

You can also add items on reading lists to your Favorites.

1. Click the Item menu ellipsis → Save as favorite.

Watch the short video on how to add items to your Favorites.

Zotero is a citation management system. After integrating your Zotero account with the Course Reserves platform, you can add items from your library to your reading list.

Note: You can only add items from your personal Zotero library. You can't add items from a group library.

Get your user information from Zotero

1. Log in to your Zotero account.
2. Under your Profile, click Settings → Security.
3. Scroll down to Applications.
4. Find your user ID for use in API calls. You'll need this ID later.

5. Click Create new private key.

6. Under Key Name, enter Course Reserves.
7. Under Personal Library, check Allow library access.
8. Under Default Group Permissions, check None.
9. Click Save Key.
10. Copy the key. You won't be able to access it again.

Add Zotero in the Course Reserves platform

1. Login to your reading list.
2. Select Settings → Reference Managers.

3. Click + Add citation managers and select Zotero.
4. Enter your Zotero user ID and the Zotero API key.
5. Click Connect.
6. When the connection is complete, refresh the page.

Add items from Zotero to your reading list

1. Click + Add → Import references → From Zotero. If you don't see that option, refresh your page again.

2. Select an item and drag and drop it into a section OR choose a Section from the drop-down menu (See Step 3: Add & Edit Items for more information).

Mendeley is a personal citation management system. After integrate your Mendeley account with the Course Reserves platform you can add items to your reading list and vice versa.

Integrate Mendeley into the Course Reserves platform

1. Login to your Course Reading list and select Settings and Reference Managers.

2. Click Connect account. Enter your Mendeley credentials and click Proceed.

3. Go to + Add and choose Import references and select From Mendeley.

3. Select an item and drag and drop it into a section OR choose a Section from the drop-down menu (See Step 3: Add & Edit Items for more information).

Export items from reading list to Mendeley

1. Check the item(s) in the reading list.

2. Click the More actions tab and select Export.
3. In the popup window, choose the fields you want to export.
4. Change the Export to option to RIS.
5. Import the file into Mendeley.

Import a file from your citation manager into your Reading List

1. Go to your citation manager and export a file in RIS format to your desktop.
   Note: All the items in this file will be added to the same section in your reading list. If your reading list has multiple sections, you can export an RIS file for each section or add all the items to one section in the reading list then move them.
2. Log in to your reading list.
3. Click +Add → import references → From file.
4. Under File type, select RIS.
5. Drag and drop or browse for the RIS file you exported.
6. Under Add to section, select the section to add the items to. 
7. Click Add all items.
   Note: If there are any items in the file that you don't want to add, hover over them and click the delete icon.

Every item added to a reading list using the Library Search function is automatically available to students, with no copyright clearance required.

For all other items, the Course Reserves team may need to clear permissions.