Academic Teaching Staff

Requests - Document Delivery

Staff, educators, and students may request document delivery items from other institutions under the following conditions:

• The material is not available from the ACAP Library
• There is no charge to the requester, though restrictions may apply on the amount of material you can request due to copyright provision*
• Textbooks or parts of textbooks are not available through this service
• Library Loan Rules apply to requested items.

*Copyright provisions apply for document delivery requests as follows:

• Books - one chapter or 10% whichever is greater.
• Journal articles - generally one article from each issue

Document delivery refers to a copy of a book chapter or journal article which can be mailed or emailed to you.

Please note:

• There is a limit of 12 requests per student allowed per term (not including requests available in the library or free online).
• Theses and psychology tests cannot be supplied through the interlibrary loan service.
• The document delivery/interlibrary loan service will close on the 12th December 2025, and reopen on the 1st February 2026.