Alumni+ and Other UPV Collectives

The Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Service aims to provide members of the UPV with access to documents not available in our library, as well as providing other external institutions with access to our University’s holdings.

What documetns can be requested:

• Copies of articles or chapters of books that are not in the UPV collection.

• Loan of original documents that are not in the UPV collection.

• Digital copy of articles or chapters of books available in the UPV Libraries in paper format published prior to 1959.

The documents requested may only be used for private, teaching or research purposes, and their reprography and use must comply with current copyright and intellectual property legislation.

Excluded are readily available documents, reference works, old material or material requiring special preservation conditions, insurance, etc., as well as patents and standards, journal fascicles and complete electronic books.

Steps to use the service:

1. Apply for registration using the form.

2. Once the registration has been confirmed by us, requests can be made using the interlibrary loan form.

Recommendations:

Only one document may be requested per application.

It is important to fill in as many fields as possible in the form to make it easier to identify and locate them:

• If the DOI is known, it is sufficient to enter it in the corresponding field from: 10.XXX/XXX, eliminating https://doi.org

• Publication field: corresponds to the title of the journal or book.

• Title field: article or chapter requested. If the loan of originals is requested, this should be left blank.

3. The user will be informed of the amount of the document and must pay it, by bank transfer, as a preliminary step in order to begin negotiations with the supplier.

• The Service Fees can be consulted.

4. When the document arrives, the user will be notified by email:

• Copies of articles, book chapters, etc.: these will be supplied in electronic format, unless copyright restrictions require them to be supplied in hard copy.

• Original documents: the consultation will be carried out within the UPV Library facilities.

More information:

If you have any doubts or queries, please contact our email account prest@bib.upv.es, telephone number 96 387 70 83 or UPV extensions 78830, 78832 and 78833.

Requests from Other Libraries

The Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Service supplies documents from the UPV collection to other libraries, both national and foreign, public or private.

How can documents be requested?

The requesting libraries can send their request from the GTBIB system, the NILDE form or by email to: prest@bib.upv.es

Before making the request for documents, it is recommended to check the stock, in the case of a journal article, or its location in PoliBuscador by indicating in the request the web address of the register or the document symbol.

Works excluded from Interlibrary Loans:

• Complete e-books.

• Unabridged reproductions of books or journal fascicles.

• Very recent or Recommended Bibliography documents that may be in high demand.

• Documents located in Departments or Research Institutes.

• All those works which, without belonging to any of the above categories, it is considered appropriate to exclude.

Cooperation with other Libraries:

The UPV Library forms part of:

• REBIUN’s Scientific Article Compensated Exchange Group (ICAC), meaning the supply of articles to these institutions will be free of charge.

• The Consortium of University Libraries of the Valencian Community (BUVAL), which allows both interlibrary loans and the supply of documents free of charge among BUVAL members.

• The NILDE network (Network for Inter-Library Document Exchange), a collaborative network of libraries to share resources created by the Library of the Italian National Research Council.

Payment methods and fees:

For the remaining Spanish libraries, REBIUN fees apply, although payment with IFLA vouchers and the establishment of reciprocity or free-of-charge relationships, or compensation accounts is allowed.

Foreign libraries can make payments by means of IFLA vouchers (international inter-library payment system) and reciprocity of fees applies. Reciprocity or free-of-charge relationships, or compensation accounts, can also be established.

Service Fees

Address for sending and returning documents:

Universitat Politècnica de Valencia
Biblioteca y Documentación Científica (Edificio 4L)
Préstamo Interbibliotecario y Obtención de Documentos
Camí de Vera s/n
46022 Valencia (España)
Tel. 963877083

More information:

If you have any doubts or queries, please contact our email account prest@bib.upv.es, telephone number 96 387 70 83 or UPV extensions 78830, 78832 and 78833.

Tools where to locate documents

There are many search tools available to help locate documents of interest, some of them are:

• PoliBuscador: Locates documents belonging to the UPV Libraries’ collection.

• BUVAL: Locates documents from the Consortium of University Libraries of the Valencian Community.

• Catálogo de la Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias Españolas – REBIUN: Locates documents from Spanish university libraries.

• ACNP (Catalogo Italiano dei Periodici).

• OCLC WorldCat: Locates documents from any library in the world.

• KVK. Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog: Locate documents from any library in the world.

• National Library of Medicine.

• Dialnet.

• Mendeley.

• Web of Science.

• Scopus.

Loctation and Service Schedule

The Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Service is located on the first floor of the UPV Central Library (Building 4L), in the Technical Process Office.

If you have any doubts or queries, please contact our email account prest@bib.upv.es, telephone number 96 387 70 83 or UPV extensions 78830, 78832 and 78833.