Library services for University of Adelaide Alumni

A person who is registered with the Development and Alumni Office of the University of Adelaide may join the Library for an annual fee.

Payment of $55 (incl GST) entitles registered alumni members to book borrowing privileges for twelve months.  In 2009, electronic resource access only is available free of charge.

Contents:

• How do I apply?


• Library Card


• Borrowing books
  • What may I borrow?
  • Loan periods
  • Handling charge
  • Renewing a loan
  • Demerit points

• Services
  • E-journals and Databases
  • Document delivery service

How do I apply?

To apply for book borrowing prileges ask in person for a Registration form during office hours (Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm) from:

• Service Enquiries, Barr Smith Library Level 3
• Loans desk, Waite Library
• Loans desk, Roseworthy Campus Library

 You will be asked to provide photo ID.

Library Card

Alumni members who join the Library will be issued with a Library Card. You will need to bring this Card with you when you use the Library.
If you lose your Library Card, report the loss immediately to Service Enquiries (telephone number 8303 5124). Any loans made with it before it is reported lost will be your responsibility.

Lost Library Cards may be replaced at a cost of $11.00 [includes GST].

Borrowing books

What may I borrow ?

As an Alumni borrower you may have on loan up to ten items at a time from the Main collection of the Barr Smith Library or from a branch library and two items from Barr Smith Reserve.

Loan periods

Books from the Main collection may be borrowed for four weeks.An item on loan to you may be recalled if it is urgently required by another user.  The loan period will be reduced to seven days and you will be notified of the new due date by email.

Handling charge

If an item is kept beyond the date of despatch of the first and final overdue notice requesting its return, an invoice will be sent for the cost of replacement of the item, plus a non-refundable handling charge of $30.00 per item.

Renewals

You may renew the loan of a book using MyLibrary on or before the due date.

A loan may be renewed up to four times unless it is required by another user.

Demerit points

Demerit points are applied when items are not returned by the due date at a rate of two points per day (or part of a day).

Services

E-journals and Databases - Access in 2009

The Library is extending the period that alumni can have **free online access** to licenced online resources until Dec 31st 2009. This is because of the availability - on a trial basis only - of the two largest e-journal publisher portfolios - Elsevier's ScienceDirect and SpringerLINK. This increases the range of material from the 9,000 e-journals, magazines, newspapers, and reports available in 2007 and 2008 to another 3000 titles through the University of Adelaide Library.

What is available in 2009?

Complete lists of the journal titles available through these resources appear below [not all titles listed are available to the University]:

• Academic Search Alumni* - covers 3000 journals in most areas of the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
• Business Source Alumni* - covers 6200 journals and 1,700 ebooks in marketing, management, MIS, accounting, finance, econometrics, economics and more.
• Annual Reviews  - review articles in many areas of academic enquiry.
  
• CSIRO Journals  - important Australian research reports in agriculture, biological and health sciences
  
• Oxford English Dictionary - the most authoritative and complete dictionary of the English language
  
• Oxford Journals Online - 200 high quality research journals covering a broad range of subjects
• Project MUSE - over 300 top humanities and social sciences journals from US university presses
  
• ScienceDirect - contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine journal literature, and including the ability to search a historical archive of over 6.75 million articles back to Volume 1, Issue 1.
  
• SourceOECD - includes everything published by the OECD (books, journals, series, working papers, databases) on subjects as diverse as general economy, statistics, agriculture, science, future studies and the environment.
  
• SpringerLINK - Springer is the second-largest journal publisher worldwide, with over 1200 journals and 3 million articles available.

[*Note that access to fulltext for some titles in Academic Search and Business Source is subject to publisher embargo. These titles and time periods are indicated on title lists for these resources.]

How do I get access?

• Step 1: Review and agree to terms and conditions for access and then register your personal details online
• Step 2: The Library will e-mail you a username and password within three working days
• Step 3: Login here, once you have received your username and password, to access Library E-Resources for Alumni

If you have any questions regarding the registration process, please contact Service Enquiries on 08 8303 5124, or e-mail library-services@adelaide.edu.au.

[*Alumni who have registered for e-resources access between May and November 2007 need not re-register]

Other Library E-Resources

Alumni may use the majority of the Library's electronic resources, in person, through the public access terminals in the University of Adelaide Libraries. Remote access to electronic resources other than those listed above is not possible.

Document delivery

Alumni members may make use of the University of Adelaide Library Document delivery service.