A guide to using Reading Lists @ Gold for students at Goldsmiths, University of London

1. Getting the Most out of your
Online Reading List
A Guide for Students at Goldsmiths, University of London

2. Finding your list
We advise academics to link to lists through the VLE. If you can’t find it
there:
1. Go to Readinglists.gold.ac.uk and login using your Goldsmiths
Username and Password
2. Type in the module title – if that doesn’t work try the module code
3. If nothing comes up talk to your lecturer – the list may not be on
the system

3. Skip to the Section you want
Depending on the subject some lists can be quite long. Rather than scroll
down you can open the ‘Table of Contents’ and select the section you want

4. Accessing Online Resources
We try to acquire all materials marked as essential in electronic format. This isn’t always possible but where we
have online access to at least a chapter you should see the blue ‘Online Resource’ button.
If you can’t access something via the Online Resource link please drop us a line at Readinglists@gold.ac.uk and
let us know

5. Click on a title to expand further details, such as how many copies of a book
are in the library and where you can find them
Opening full item details

6. Turning on a Citation Style
By clicking on the Citation Style button you can reconfigure the list to
appear in the referencing style you need.

7. Create a collection of Reading Lists
• If you’re logged in you will see a button saying ‘Add
to My Lists’ in the top right hand corner of your
list.
• Press this and the list you’re looking at will be
added to your ‘My Lists’ tab for easy access in
future.

8. Keep track of what you’re reading
If you’re logged in, you can click the
circle beside each item to mark your
reading intentions. This will let you
filter lists down to items you:
• ‘Have read’
• Are ‘Reading now’
• Have decided you ‘Will read’
• Have decided you ‘Won’t read’
• Haven’t decided anything about

9. Putting notes on items on your list
Beside the ‘Read Status’ button you can click the three dots to add a personal note
to an item. Any items you put a note on will automatically be saved to your ‘My
Bookmarks’ tab. Notes are also saved to your profile.

10. Filtering the full list
There are a number of ways you can filter the
list:
- Reading importance (As assigned by your
lecturer)
- Reading intentions (as assigned by you)
- Online Availability
You can also use the ‘search’ box to filter a list
by a keyword

11. Exporting lists for referencing
If you open the ‘export’ menu you will be given
various options for exporting your list:
• Export citations
This will let you export the list to referencing tools like Endnote and
Zotero via a .RIS file. We recommend googling guidance on
importing .RIS files to the referencing tool you use.
• Export to Refworks
This allows you to export the list to Refworks
• Export to CSV
This allows you to export the list as a spreadsheet for Excel
• Export to PDF
This will export the list as you see it on the screen into a PDF –
when exporting from the normal list view it will include any private
study notes you’ve added

12. Creating a collection of bookmarks
As we’ve already mentioned, any item’s you put a
note on get added to your bookmark library.
You can also do this by opening an item and
pressing ‘Add to My Bookmarks’
It will then be accessible in your ‘My Bookmarks’
tab
In the ‘My Bookmarks’ tab under ‘Add’ you can
also use the ‘Quick add book’ tool to find and
add books which aren’t on your reading list.
Simply type in the author, title or ISBN and see
what comes up.

13. Exporting saved bookmarks for referencing
There are two steps to exporting items from the
‘My Bookmarks’ tab as references
1. Select the items you want to export (you can
select all using the check box at the top)
2. Go to the ‘Action’ Menu and select ‘Export
citations’ or ‘Export to RefWorks’
The ‘Action’ menu also gives you the option of
removing items from the ‘My Bookmarks’ tab.

14. Thank You for Reading
If you have any questions about the content of your list, the best person to speak to is your
lecturer.
If you have any questions or feedback about using Reading Lists @ Gold as a system contact
us at readinglists@gold.ac.uk and we will do our best to help.
If you are having trouble accessing a specific item on your reading list why not contact us on
LibChat http://libanswers.gold.ac.uk/search.php and we’ll see what we can do to help .