Information for teaching staff at the UDE
Employing literature in teaching
Other library services:
Providing literature for students online and on campus
The University Library currently offers two platforms through which you can provide students with specific reading material for your course:
Leganto and Semester collections online.
On both platforms, you can
- structure content using sections and headings,
- include books through a catalogue search,
- submit a digitisation request for book extracts or journal articles to the University Library,
- select printed books to be placed on-site in a physical semester collection,
- upload your own materials,
- link to external online sources.
Leganto
What is Leganto?
A quick and clear-cut compilation of literature and resources
Leganto is a web-based tool for creating and managing reading lists for teaching.
You can search the extensive collection in our Primo catalogue, which includes hundreds of millions of academic articles and e-books, add titles using their DOI or ISBN, or import them from reference management software.
Why Leganto?
Benefits for lecturers and students
Benefits for lecturers:
You can ...
- present bibliographies in a standardised manner across faculties
- easily add references from various sources
- send scanning requests to the library directly from Leganto
- add reading lists into Moodle
- communicate with the library simply and directly
- carry over literature lists to the next term
Benefits for students:
- well-organised bibliographies
- easily access literature and online resources
- access directly from Moodle courses
Leganto and Moodle
Direct link between the literature list and the course content
Our platform, "Leganto", is integrated directly into Moodle.
You can use the "Leganto Literature List" activity to create a literature list directly from within Moodle and link it to the course. This gives students direct access to the content.
Digitisation orders
Order book chapters and articles
You can request digital copies of individual chapters from books or articles from journals in the University Library’s collection directly via Leganto.
We will check the copyright requirements and, where possible, provide you with the scans for your literature list.
Physical semester collections
Making books available on site at the library
You have the option of having print media from the University Library’s collection arranged separately in a physical semester collection for your course, available on site in the library.
Each semester collection has a physical location / an allocated shelf in the selected branch library. The books in a semester collection are not available for loan and are therefore securely available to your students for on-site use.
In Leganto, simply mark the desired titles with the tag for the relevant branch library where you wish your semester collection to be placed. The new location is also shown in the display in Primo.
Help and contact
Directly via Leganto or by email
You can get in touch with the library easily and straightforwardly, directly from within Leganto. Please feel free to use the chat function in Leganto.
Of course, you can also send us your enquiries by email:
leganto.ub@uni-due.de
Semester collections online
Semester Collections Online
Uploading of literature independently, allocation of reading keys
Via our web-based platform "Semesterapparate online", you can apply for a semester collection yourself. You assign a reading key, which your students can use to access the materials after logging in with their university ID.
You can upload your own files, journal articles, book extracts, etc.
In the case of a purely online collection, only references to literature are provided; in other words, NO books are made available in the library.
Physical Semester Collections
Making books available on site at the library
You have the option of having print media from the University Library’s collection arranged separately in a physical semester collection for your course, available on site in the library.
Each semester collection has a physical location / an allocated shelf in the selected branch library. The books in a semester collection are not available for loan and are therefore securely available to your students for on-site use.
When you set up a semester collection, you can select a branch library as the location. Once the library has allocated a shelf space, the books will be made available there. The new location will also be shown in Primo.
Help and contact
by email
Please feel free to email any enquiries regarding semester collections to:
semapp.ub@uni-due.de.
Digitizing literature for teaching
Do you need digital copies from the University Library’s collection?
Scan services
Digitisation requests for items from the University Library’s book and journal collection can be submitted directly via Primo.
Please also refer to our step-by-step instructions:
Copyright
Usually, up to 15 per cent of a work may be digitised and made available in a protected format.
Information on Section 60a of the German Copyright Act (UrhG)