DeliverEdocs/ILL  POLICIES
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Our mission is to obtain materials for faculty, staff, and students and to provide document delivery among the TAMU campus libraries. We reciprocate by lending materials from the TAMU Libraries to other libraries for their users. The department participates in resource sharing through the lending and borrowing of materials nationally and internationally.

WHO MAY USE THE SERVICE?

Faculty, emeritus faculty, staff, currently enrolled students at the College Station campus (including Distance Education students), system agencies (TAES, TEES, TEEX, TAEX, Texas Forest Services), veterinarians in private practice in Texas and Texas Health Care Professionals, and visiting scholars are eligible to use this system.

HOW DO I REQUEST MATERIAL?

Place your requests (owned or unowned by TAMU libraries) through the deliverEdocs system.

HOW MANY REQUESTS CAN I SUBMIT PER DAY?

There is no limit. However, for items housed in our own collections, we will only process 10 requests per day for you. The remaining 20 will be processed the following days. If your requested items were not found in our collections, there is no limit for sending your requests out to other lending libraries to supply.

WHAT IS THE COST?  

Electronic delivery of documents up to 50 pages to your desktop is free to most clients. Fees and special handling charges may apply depending on the level of service and affiliation. There is a $5.00 charge if you request print copies (up to 50 pages) rather than electronic delivery.

Experiment and Extension Agencies: Register selecting the Evans Library as your library association.  Your station accounting office must notify the Evans Library Interlibrary Services Department when the delivery service is to be initiated for that station. Your accounting office must establish an account number with the Evans library's business office (979-845-5717). All transactions will be charged to this account number.

Texas Health Care Professionals:  Register selecting the Medical Sciences Library a your library association.  Electronic delivery is free to those in the following counties: Bastrop, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Burnet, Coryell, Galls, Grimes, Lampasas, Lee, Leon, Llano, McCulloch, McLennan, Madison, Mason, Milam, Robertson, San Saba, Travis, Washington, Williamson.  

Electronic delivery is free to veterinarians in private practice in Texas.

For more information, please consult with the staff at one of the library service desks listed below.

TURNAROUND TIMES/URGENT NEED POLICY

If the standard 3-5 day turnaround time will not meet your needs, please indicate the urgency in the note field on the request form when submitting your request.  In order to expedite the request, contact the library staff by phone or email immediately after submitting your request.

If the requested material is not owned by the University Libraries, we will attempt to borrow the material from another library as quickly as possible.  Please be aware that this can take several days and, on occasion, weeks.

RESTRICTIONS

We are unable to:

• Loan materials from the Current Periodicals Department, Cushing Library, Reference or Reserve.

• Supply multiple copies of a single article.

• Copy from journals which would be damaged by the photocopying process.

• Provide photocopies of items housed in the Reserve Department.

• Fill any order which would, in our judgment, involve violation of copyright law.

• Copy or electronically deliver items that are over 50 pages in length.

Any items or information obtained from the Texas A&M University Library's deliverEdocs document delivery service may NOT be: retransmitted, sold, republished in any form, broadcasted, or circulated to anyone else without the express prior written consent of the Rightsholder. Personal Subscribers and Texas A&M University Library's Authorized Users may use information from the Texas A&M University's Electronic Resources, but copying, distributing or otherwise making available the property of the Rightsholder or its licensors' copyright-protected content from the Service to third parties is forbidden.

You are prohibited from:
(a) using or permitting the use of the information to prepare an original database or a comparison to other databases that are sold, rented, published, or furnished in any manner to a third party;
(b) using or permitting the use of the information for the purpose of compiling, enhancing, verifying, supplementing, adding to, or deleting from any mailing list, business directory, or other compilation of information that is sold, rented, published or furnished in ANY MANNER for profit or not to a third party; or
(c) using or permitting the use of the information in connection with any individual credit, employment or insurance decisions.

Permission to bypass any of the above restrictions and any fees payable are the SOLE responsibility of the patron. Go to the Copyright Clearance Center at http://www.copyright.com for more information. Use the Rightslink® service at http://www.copyright.com/ccc/do/viewPage?pageCode=ac9-n where you can access the publishers’ Web sites to acquire the rights and content you need. Order articles, reprints and e-prints, and gain instant permission to distribute articles in: Coursepacks, Web postings, E-mail, and Dissertations.

Digital Permissions Service: To distribute content in digital formats, including e-mail and your Internet or extranet site, see: http://www.copyright.com/ccc/do/viewPage?pageCode=bu3-n

Seminar / Training Packets: For permission to use materials for business seminars and corporate training, see Business at http://www.copyright.com/ccc/do/viewPage?pageCode=bu1-n

Electronic-Reserves / Print and Electronic Classroom Handouts / Distance Education: Interlibrary material supplied by deliverEdocs is obtained for the use of a SINGLE patron and cannot be used as E-Reserves: Copyright permissions need to be secured by the PERSON CONDUCTING THE CLASS prior to posting Reserve content. Reposting of the same material for use in a subsequent semester requires a new permission. See http://www.copyright.com/media/pdfs/Using-Electronic-Reserves.pdf

Evans ILS Desk Hours:

Monday - Thursday

8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Friday

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Saturday

CLOSED

Sunday

1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Medical Sciences Library
Desk Hours:

Monday - Thursday

7:30 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.

Friday

7:30 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.

Saturday

9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Sunday

1:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.

INTERLIBRARY BORROWING: Information and Guidelines About our Services

INTERLIBRARY LENDING: Policy on Lending Materials to other Libraries

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