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Document Delivery

Borrow from other libraries

Document delivery is a service for requesting books, journal articles and other resources not held by ECU Library.
Please note: eBooks cannot be sourced via Interlibrary loans.

Document delivery is available to:

  • academic and professional staff with university related research needs
  • graduate, honours and higher degree students
  • in some circumstances, remote and off-shore students*

*Requests for copies of chapters or articles can be accommodated. We’re unable to send books from other libraries to offshore students.

Terminology

  • Document Delivery: ECU requests a copy of an item (e.g. journal article) not in its collection from another library
  • Interlibrary Loan (ILL): ECU requests a physical item (e.g. book) not in its collection from another library
  • Virtual Document eXchange (VDX): ECU’s document delivery platform

Note: ‘Document Delivery’ and ‘Interlibrary loan’ (or ILL) are often used interchangeably.

How it works

Three resources have been assembled to help you use the service:

Document Delivery instructional video

Watch the video which will help you understand how to use the service to access items.

Collecting your requests

Please view the relevant page in Document Delivery Library Guide.

Overdue items

Please view the relevant page in Document Delivery Library Guide.

Contact

For enquiries about the Document Delivery service please contact us at:
Telephone: (61 8) 6304 5525
Email: docdel@ecu.edu.au

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