The University of Adelaide Library
THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE
SA 5005
Telephone:
+61 8 8303 5372
Facsimile:
+61 8 8303 4369
Email: library@adelaide.edu.au
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Remote Student Library Service
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- Who can use the Remote Student Library Service?
- The University of Adelaide Library system provides a document delivery and loans service to non-metropolitan students [outside the (08) 82/83/84 telephone prefix area] who do not visit a University of Adelaide campus to attend classes.
Roseworthy Campus students who live within a 25km radius of the Roseworthy Campus are not eligible to use the Remote Student Library service.
Resources are made available through the combined collections of the Barr Smith, Law, Elder Music, Roseworthy Campus and Waite libraries.
Please note: School of Agriculture and Wine remote students should consult the separate Waite Library Remote Student Library guide.
To register as a remote student please email the library library-external@adelaide.edu.au
- Contacting the Library
- How we can help you
- If you are unable to visit the library in person you are entitled to a range of services to help with your University of Adelaide study and research. These include:
- Loans of books, videos and other materials, with free postage both ways
- Scans of journal articles or sections of books (subject to the provisions of the Copyright Act)
- Subject searches
- Interlibrary loans (Note: a fee applies to books and photocopies obtained on interlibrary loan)
- Costs & Invoicing
- Books: no charge
- Scanned articles: no charge
- Photocopies: $2.20 per 20 pages or part thereof; an additional $2.20 per item for faxed copies
- If we don't hold the item an Interlibrary loan fee will be charged.
- Remote students who do not have access to a Department account code will be invoiced at the end of each semester. If the invoice is not paid your academic transcript will be withheld.
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- Making a request for a specific book or article from a journal
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Your requests for a specific book or article from a journal are made online using the Electronic request form.
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- Subject search request
- When requesting a subject search please allow sufficient time for a proper search to be made. If we are in doubt as to your exact needs, we may send a list of references from which you can choose relevant items.
The Remote Student Librarian and your Research Librarian can help you to find relevant information for your essays and assignments.
We will let you know if requested items are unavailable and will suggest alternative titles if you ask us to.
You may email your subject request to the Library or send it by fax on (08) 8303 4370.
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- Library Research
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Search the Library Catalogue
The University of Adelaide Library Catalogue provides access to thousands of electronic journals and a growing collection of e-books. Access to specific journal articles and book chapters that have been digitised for teaching purposes is also available from the web-based Library Catalogue.
Finding journal articles
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The Library subscribes to hundreds of databases which index journal articles, and a growing percentage of these have some online full text. The Research Librarians produce and maintain resource pages which list the best databases and Internet sites for every subject taught at the University of Adelaide. Refer to the Resources for subjects web page for a link to the resources page for your own subject or use the Find articles on a subject page for more general resources.
If you locate a citation in a database which does not have a full-text link in the database, search for the journal title in the Library Catalogue (i.e.: fields labelled, Source: or Journal:) in a second web browser window.
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- Postal service
- South Australia:
If you are an remote student resident in a country area of South Australia [outside the (08) 82/83/84 telephone district], items will be posted to you through the regular Australia Post service.
Other States:
Australia Post will deliver the items you have requested direct to your door. If you are not at home when the courier calls you will receive a notice advising you where the delivery can be picked up. Let us know if you prefer mail to be sent to your work address.
- To return items:
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- To send items back to the Library, stick the enclosed Business Reply label onto the return package and take it to your nearest Post Office.
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- Loan conditions
- Loan periods of ten weeks for advanced level students and eight weeks for undergraduate students apply to users of the postal service. Some heavily used items will only be available for shorter loan periods.
Remote undergraduate students may borrow up to 30 items at a time. Advanced level students are entitled to borrow 50 items.
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An item on loan to you may be recalled if it is urgently required by another user. The loan period will be reduced and you will be notified of the new due date by email.
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It is in your interest to use library materials as soon as possible after you receive them. Be sure to contact the Library either on or just before the due date if you wish to renew a loan, giving full details of the loan(s) to be renewed, or you can renew the loan yourself through the MyLibrary option on the Library Catalogue.
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- Demerit points
- Demerit points are allocated when items are not returned by the due date at a rate of two points per day (or part of a day).
If you acccumulate 60 demerit points your borrowing privileges are withdrawn for seven days. More details about the demerit points scheme are available.
Please contact us if you cannot return materials on time.
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- Overseas students
- The Library is unable to send books overseas. Scans of journal articles or chapters from books may be provided, subject to copyright restrictions.
It is important that you supply as much information as possible about your assignment topic when contacting the Library.
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- Access to other libraries
- South Australia:
Staff and students of the University of Adelaide are automatically registered as reciprocal borrowers at the libraries of the University of South Australia and Flinders University.
Interstate:
Most libraries in Australia are members of University Library Australia which is a national borrowing scheme that allows all staff and students of Australian Vice Chancellors Committee (AVCC) member universities to borrow in person from any other interstate university in Australia.
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- Visiting the Library
- If you are able to visit one of the University of Adelaide Libraries in person, please take note of our opening times. A tour of the Barr Smith Library can be arranged by prior arrangement with the Remote Student Librarian. A librarian is always available to answer questions about the Library and its services.
Remember to carry your Student ID Card (which is also your Library Card) whenever you visit the Library.
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