The Talis Aspire bookmarklet enables you to create items for your reading list by saving references from anywhere on the web simply by clicking a button on the favourites bar of your web browser. This includes books, journal articles, and multimedia resources. You can drop these bookmarks directly into your reading list or save them for later.
To install the tool, go to the 'My Bookmarks' tab on the reading lists system and click the Bookmarklet Installation Tutorial. This will explain how to add the button to the favourites bar in your browser. Video tutorials from Talis Aspire are available with instructions for Internet Explorer or for Firefox.
From the Library catalogue
Open the Library catalogue in a new tab in your browser and search for a book (or print journal, DVD, or any other item) you want to add. From within the book record, click the bookmarklet. If not already logged into the reading list system, you will be asked to log in at this point. Check the book details and click Create to save the bookmark for later, or Create & Add to List to add it directly to a reading list.
Go back to the reading lists tab in your browser and refresh the page to see the new bookmark.
Video: Bookmarking a book from your library catalogue (from Talis Aspire)
Video: Create and add to a list when bookmarking (from Talis Aspire)
From another source
If the book you need isn't on the Library catalogue, you can use the same process with other library catalogues or online book stores, like COPAC, WorldCat or Amazon.
Video: Bookmarking from Amazon, WorldCat and COPAC (from Talis Aspire)
Create a chapter
You can specify a chapter to read by bookmarking a book (as above) and then adding 'Is part of...' from the 'Add field' drop-down list and typing the chapter number, chapter title, or pages to read into the 'Title' field. If you are adding multiple chapters from the same book, please re-bookmark the resource each time.
More information about using 'Part of...' and 'Is part of...' can be found in the readinglists@kent support blog.
Video: Using 'Is Part Of' to create a chapter resource when bookmarking a book from your library catalogue (from Talis Aspire)
To add a full-text e-journal article, or other subscription e-resource, that needs a Kent username and password to access, always go through the University of Kent Library website to ensure full access. Find the article you need and click your bookmarklet. Check the details of the resource and make any amendments.
If it's a journal article you are bookmarking, always do this from the article abstracts page, as you may find it useful to paste the article's DOI (if available) into the 'Lookup' field.
Then create the bookmark or add straight it to a reading list, as above.
Video: Bookmarking from a journal article provider (from Talis Aspire)
To add an e-journal title that needs a Kent username and password to access, always go through the University of Kent Library website to ensure full access. Click through to the homepage of the journal you need and click your bookmarklet. Check the details of the resource and make any amendments. If any information is missing, use the 'Add field' function to fill in these details.
Then create the bookmark or add straight it to a reading list, as above.
Click your bookmarklet from any web resource to add it to your bookmarks. This can be the homepage or any other page of a website, a blog or individual blog post, images, YouTube videos, etc.
Check the title assigned to the page carefully, as this needs to make sense to the students seeing it. You can add extra information, such as author or date, using the 'Add field' function.