Reading Lists Online (RLO): guide for academic staff

Current reading lists (2025-26)

Your 2025-26 reading lists are now available on RLO (Reading Lists Online) and are visible to students.    

What you need to do to ensure students have access to appropriate resources.  

Please prioritise your Semester 1 lists as soon as possible (if the list is prefixed with Subject to Approval or Subject to Review wait until Library staff remove the prefix or ask for help).  You’ll be contacted again when the library is ready to receive lists for Semester 2 modules. 

• Login to Reading Lists Online (RLO) http://readinglists.tees.ac.uk to check the list details and contents are up to date.
• Amend, add or remove any items as necessary.  When adding items to lists please make use of Discovery to identify relevant materials held in the Library's extensive collection of book titles, electronic journal titles and articles, rather than requesting new resources.  To support the blended model of delivery you should prioritise online resources rather than print resources as far as possible https://libguides.tees.ac.uk/RLO/onlineresources 
• Check that links to websites, journals and articles work as Library staff do not check these. 
• Publish the list OR Request Review
  • If you’ve amended your list in any way you must click on the ‘Publish’ icon. 
  • If you have not made any amendments, you need to ‘Request Review’ (found under the Edit menu). 

Both of these actions notify the Library that the list has been checked.   

Why this is important?

Updating your lists has many benefits:  

• Advance funds - It is especially important that reading lists for undergraduate students are up to date so students can spend their Teesside University Advance funds wisely.   

• Accessibility – Prioritising ebooks and online resources reflects the blended model of delivery and removing out of date items ensures resources are relevant.  

Adding items

When adding items to lists please make use of the Library's extensive collection of book titles, electronic journal titles and articles, and other formats of materials rather than requesting new resources. 

To add resources which are already in stock in the Library use the Discovery search tool to find books (print and electronic), journal articles and conference papers. Sign in to Discovery to view full availability of resources.

The short video below shows how to add books and journal articles on to your reading list using Discovery.

Written instructions of how to add different items on to your reading list are below.  

If an article/paper is not available via the library's subscriptions or open access please see the Scanning for Teaching page as it may be possible to supply a copyright cleared version.  It may also be possible to use the Scanning for Teaching service to digitise a chapter from a book (or up to 10% of the book) which isn't available in ebook format.

Use the Subject Guides to find journal titles and databases that are relevant for your modules.  If the journal or database you want to add is not available via the Library please contact your Academic Librarian

PressReader gives access to over 7000 newspapers and magazines.

Instructions on how to bookmark newspapers, magazines and articles from this site are below.

You can also direct your students to information on websites. 

There might be videos which you would like to add to your lists.

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)

BoB is Learning on Screen’s on demand TV and radio service for education. There is a series of instructional videos to help using BoB. Users will need to register when logging in to BoB for the first time, and then complete registration by clicking on the link in the verification email. Students will need to register in order to view any clips you bookmark on your reading lists. 

Instructions on how to bookmark videos from this site are below.

YouTube

YouTube is home to lots of useful videos on a variety of topics.

Some useful education Channels on You Tube include:

• Teesside University
• The Open University
• Open Learn
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Instructions on how to bookmark videos from this site are below.

RLO and Blackboard Ultra

Reading List and Subject Guide links are automatically added to each module in Blackboard Ultra. You can check this is working correctly by following the guidance in the Blackboard: LibGuides and Reading List E-learning Help Guide.

If you have any issues with this, please contact your Academic Librarian.