Document Delivery
Document delivery
Found an article/book but ITM Library does not have access to it or subscribes to it?
Request it through our document delivery service (docdel@itg.be). Fees apply.
DocDel is a service provided by the ITM Library to our users/customers. These users/customers can be (in order of importance, though not in quantity): Other Belgian Scientific Libraries (via Impala), Staff and Students at ITM, External Requesters (via personal email; these are staff and students at other institutions, ITM alumni, retired ITM staff, etc.), Partners of the ‘Raamakkoord’ Alliance (Libraries in Other Countries such as those at INHEM or IPK/IMTPK in Cuba and IPH in India).
DocDel’s users/customers can request publications that can be either journal articles, chapters from books or complete books through Unicat.
If we can’t find your Docdel request via other Belgian libraries, we contact Subito: a document delivery service with a network of German, Austrian and Swiss academic libraries.
Requests to other libraries
Books not available in the library, or photocopies of journal articles can be requested from other libraries, provided some strict interlibrary regulations are taken into account:
- Requests from ITM staff are accepted when signed by a staff member with budget responsabilities. They are then charged to the departmental current account (or external fund). Standard charges are €5 per item.
- Requests from outside parties to order photocopies or to borrow books from other libraries are not accepted.
Requests from other libraries
The library also provides photocopies to other libraries, either through the Belgian national document delivery network Impala, or following a written request via e-mail (docdel@itg.be).
Prices
- When requested from within the Impala circuit, electronic versions of printed articles up to 30 pages cost €6.20 (€5 effectively). Articles exceeding 30 pages are not delivered in electronic format.
Invoices are sent after each quarter. The minimum amount for each invoice is €13, even if the price of the services rendered amounts to less than €13.
Requests from outside parties are dealt with in the same way, provided they arrive in written or electronic format. Requests by telephone are not accepted. Members of university or higher education departments should use their own library facilities (interlibrary lending services).
Students: if you are a student, the fee for a docdel request will be send to your department head.
