Burkitt-Ford Library services for off-campus students and staff

The University of Sydney Library aims to support teaching and learning by providing access to:

Catalogue

The catalogue will help you locate resources held by the library. It provides location details for print volumes and links to e-texts and e-journals.
http://opac.library.usyd.edu.au/

Borrowing

Use your student or staff card to borrow resources from Sydney University Library and to obtain articles and books if you are a distance education student or off-campus staff. Students with access to other collections may want to borrow from other University Libraries.

Access to Electronic Resources

Access is provided to all students and staff from both on and off campus sites. Off-campus access to the majority of resources will be with your Unikey or with your name and the 15 digit barcode on your student card. E-access is dependent on the license agreement with the provider of the resource.

Information about the Remote Access system.

Document delivery for off-campus students and staff

Document Delivery provides students and staff with articles and books not available at the University of Sydney Library.

Registration is required. See Document Delivery for registration and requesting information.


For students and staff located at remote locations we also provide articles and books held by the University Library which are not available in an electronic format and therefore cannot be accessed from off-campus locations.


Whenever possible we use web delivery to supply articles.

Articles in paper format will be mailed to you.


If you are located within Australia we will send you University of Sydney Library books to you by mail. These books must be returned to us at your expense and by their due date.


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. Book chapters will be sent to you by web delivery.


If you are located within Australia we can obtain books from other libraries for you. These books will be sent to you by Express Post. They must be returned by their due date to the Burkitt-Ford Library and at your expense by Express Post.

We do NOT send books to students living outside Australia.


DIRECT document delivery service

DIRECT is a service offered by the University of Sydney Library which allows direct ordering of journal articles from OVID Databases, from journals which are not held by the University Library in print or electronic form.


The requests are sent directly to a supplier called Infotrieve without library staff processing them and will be delivered to you by email or fax.


This service is only available to PhD, Masters, and Graduate Diploma students and staff.

Registration is required. Online registration forms and information about the DIRECT service.

Online Tutorials

A number of online tutorials are available to students studying at a distance who are unable to attend sessions either in the Medical, Dentistry or Burkitt-Ford Libraries.

Tutorials are available for Medline, Embase, and Endnote.

Face to Face Classes

Should you be on campus from time to time, you might like to have a look at the range of face to face small group classes available to students and staff. Choose the Medical sciences option from the list.These training sessions are held in a number of locations including the Medical, Dentistry and Burkitt-Ford Libraries.

Research Appointments

On-campus individual research appointments can be made by students and staff.

For more information about Finding Medical and Health Information contact:

Faculty Liaison Librarians

Library facilities

The Burkitt-Ford Library provides a pleasant learning environment in an air conditioned space. Click here for information on our facilities.