Guides: Document Delivery: Start here

⚠️ COVID19 Restrictions on Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services

Many libraries in Australia and overseas have reduced their services in response to the ongoing COVID-19 situation. This may limit USC Library's ability to obtain loans on print books from other libraries.

We will contact you if we are unable to provide the item you have requested. However, please consider requesting an individual chapter (copyright limits apply) from a book as an alternative to requesting the whole work.

About Document Delivery

USC Library document delivery and inter-library loan service may be used by eligible students & staff to obtain books, journal articles and other resources from external sources for use in research and scholarship activities when the item is not available from the USC Library collections.

Eligibility:

USC Teaching and Research staff for teaching, research and scholarship activities
USC Professional staff for projects supporting the business of the University
USC Postgraduate students
USC students enrolled in Honours programs (a limit of 10 requests per student, per year)

FAQ's

For Journal Articles ensure you have searched Google Scholar as the item may be accessible there
Log in to the Library and search for the item
If the item does not appear in your results, select Expand results beyond USC Library
Find the item in the results and click on the title. (If no results - see Citation Search section below)
Select the Document delivery request, fill in the additional information and select Request
Your request is now submitted.

If you are unable to locate the item in the Library Search, follow the steps below.

Select Citation Search from the top menu
Enter as many details as possible and click Submit
Select the Document delivery request, fill in the additional information and select Request

If you have any enquiries, contact Document Delivery

Log into the Library to monitor progress on your document delivery request in the My Account. Click on Requests.

Article and book chapters will be supplied via email to your USC email account. Some material may be supplied under licence conditions which may prevent supplying to you in a digital format. If this is the case, the material will be made available in physical format for collection from your selected USC Library location.

Physical loans will be made available for collection from the library of your choice, as indicated at the time of requesting. The loan period on physical loans are determined by the lending institution and are not renewable.

Contact us

Document delivery

Email: ill@usc.edu.au

Document Delivery Requests Via Library Discover

Video guide to document delivery

How to submit requests through the Library Discover search and track them from your library account.