How to use University of Sydney Library services to obtain articles and books

Distance postgraduate students - in Australia and overseas

Ordering articles and books

If you have been set specific subject readings, you should first try the link to online course readings available from our Reserve Collection. Off-Campus passwords are available from this site using your UniKey.

Register for Inter-Library Loans/Document Delivery.

Badham Library's Document Delivery and Inter-Library Loans service will provides you with books or a chapter from a book, articles from journals or conference proceedings.

Before requesting articles and books you will need to Register online at http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/borrowing/docdel/illreg.html and choose Badham as your Home Library.

If you need any information about registering, please contact your subject librarian or Document Delivery staff.

Items held by the University Library.


• Check the Library Catalogue to find books and journals and e-journals available from the University of Sydney Library.
• To obtain books and journal articles held only in print format use the request forms at http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/borrowing/docdel


Items not held by the University Library.


• Titles not in the catalogue should be requested from http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/borrowing/docdel/

Obtaining articles and books

Journal articles


• Whenever possible we use web delivery, via email, to supply articles.

 
Books


• Please check the Library catalogue for e-books.
• We can photocopy a section of a book as long as it complies with the copyright law.
  We can copy one chapter or 10 percent of a book whichever is the larger portion.
• If you are located within Australia we can obtain books from other libraries for you. These books will be checked-out out on your Library card and sent to you by express post.
• Books obtained for you must be returned to DD/ILL, Badham Library, University of Sydney, 2006, at your expense, by either registered mail or express post.
• We can NOT send books to students living outside Australia.
• Note that books from any Library are subject to recall, and you may be asked to return books before the due date. Overdue books are subject to fines.