Helsinki University Library

Interlibrary loans to University of Helsinki staff

Unless otherwise agreed upon, material ordered by the staff is delivered to the library.

Articles are only supplied in paper format, because the delivery of electronic documents would breach the Copyright Act. Article copies (not loans) are also supplied by Helsinki University libraries. Interlibrary loan requests between Helsinki University libraries are subject to a fee.

The request must state

• the name, department/unit of the person making the request
• email address, telephone
• number billing information

Invoices for loan requests from staff of the Helsinki University and researchers using the Library’s services can be addressed to an individual department, laboratory or project. The payer must be indicated when placing the order. Orders will be invoiced according to the price list in effect at the time.

Interlibrary loans to other private customers

Students and other private individuals shall collect their interlibrary loans supplied by other libraries from one of the Helsinki University libraries. Unless otherwise indicated, interlibrary loans must be paid at collection.

Request for Interlibrary loan or Article copies

• Request for Interlibrary Loan to the City Centre Campus Library
• Request for Interlibrary Loan to Kumpula
• Request for Interlibrary Loan to Terkko
• Request for Interlibrary Loan to the Viikki Campus Library (for the staff and students)
• Request for Interlibrary Loan to the Viikki Campus Library (other customers)

The handling of your request is expedited if you give your contact information and the following details as precisely as possible:

Article copy

• ISSN, journal, volume, number, year, pages
• author, title of the article

Book loan

• ISBN
• author, title, year, edition (if needed)

Unless otherwise agreed upon, orders are delivered to the library.

Interlibrary loans and article copies that are not paid at collection will be invoiced separately.

The invoices will be sent to the invoicing address indicated in the loan request, and pricing will follow the Helsinki University Library’s price list in effect at the time.

Orders are binding. A fee will be charged for material that arrives by the date indicated by the client even if the client does not collect the material.

If, due to the pricing used by the sending library, the final price for the request is higher than that indicated on the Helsinki University Library price list, the client must nevertheless pay it in full. The client will also be charged any fees for overdue loans.

If not collected, the material will be returned to the sending library one week after the client has been notified of the material’s arrival. Uncollected material will also be charged for according to the price list.