Document delivery

The purpose of this service is to get the information you require for your Monash research, from wherever it is, to wherever you are. If eligible you can receive:

• photocopies from items at a branch library on another campus
• photocopies from non-Monash libraries or document suppliers
• loans from non-Monash libraries

Monash University staff and postgraduate students - document delivery request procedure

Libraries, see Inter-library loans - for other libraries

Eligibility for document delivery

• Monash staff
  • current academic staff
  • general staff with work related research needs
• Monash students
  • HDR (higher degree by thesis) students
  • OPG (graduate diploma, higher degree by coursework)
  • honours

Monash undergraduates, offshore students, alumni, special borrower card holders and members of the community are not eligible for this service. However you can contact Library External Client Services to request document delivery services (fees apply).

Request document delivery

Requests are placed from within the library catalogue using the Loan requests function, see Loan requests help

Delivery options

• nominate the campus libary from which you will collect books. Books are held at the loans desk.
• state whether you want photocopies posted or delivered electronically. Electronic delivery is only possible if we received the document electronically

Students enrolled in off-campus courses, and, staff at sites where there is no Monash library, have all materials delivered to them.

Off-campus students living overseas see Services for overseas off-campus students

University of Melbourne - a special loan service

Eligible staff and students may use the catalogue to request books from University of Melbourne (Parkville libraries only). Items can only be collected from the Sir Louis Matheson Library loans desk (Clayton campus). See Melbourne-Monash intercampus loans for more detail.

Request theses

Most universities do not lend copies of their theses. Usually we will purchase a copy and put it in the Monash University Library collection. Digital copies of theses from ProQuest dissertations & theses can be obtained quickly. Read more about obtaining theses.

Limits to the service

We provide research students and staff with material to supplement the Monash University Library collection.

The service cannot be unlimited because we pay for items received. A budget is allocated for the service and each faculty is assigned a proportion of this.

Students need to contact their academic supervisor or a librarian from the relevant faculty team for authorisation to request fast-track service or items from overseas.

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