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Paediatrics: Prescribed & recommended textbooks submissions

This subject guide is created for the use of the Paediatrics department at Health Sciences Faculty

Introduction

From 2025 the Library no longer uses the Nevada system to manage the submission of prescribed and recommended textbooks.

Lecturers or departmental administrators now need to submit information regarding these textbooks in the form below.

For information on titles required, please use the Library's WorldShare Discovery catalogue.

Submission Closing Date:

In order to ensure copies are available when the semester starts, the closing date for submissions are as follows:

Semester 1 textbooks: 30 September (e.g. Submit before 30 September 2024 for Semester 1, 2025)

Semester 2 textbooks: 30 April

Submission

Guidelines

The Department of Library Services (DLS) supports the Open Access (OA) movement and encourages the use of Open Educational Resources (OERs), as well as the practice of using a variety of resources as course material. Where no relevant open access resources can be found, and textbooks are required, the purchasing of textbooks needs to adhere to the guidelines specified in this document.

Students are expected to purchase or have access to their own copies of prescribed textbooks. The purchase of prescribed textbooks is to provide additional access for UP students to learning resources. The DLS prefers to purchase material in electronic format to ensure access to prescribed texts independent of time and location. In line with this practice, purchasing prescribed and recommended texts follows two basic principles:

  1. Where an eBook is available on an acceptable DLS licence, it will be purchased in preference to purchasing a print copy
  2. Print copies will only be purchased where no eBook is available, or a specific need for a print copy is identified.