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Document delivery
Here you will find information about the ULB’s free and chargeable document delivery services.
Overview
Digital course materials
To support online teaching, the ULB offers lecturers at the MLU the provision, free of charge, of titles available exclusively in print as part of Section 60a of the German Copyright Act (UrhG) for digital course materials. Lecturers at the MLU, who have created an event in StudIP. If student assistants are tasked with making the booking, they must provide the lecturer’s email address.
Before placing your order, please check carefully whether the title you require is available in electronic form. If the title is already available for the MLU If the work is licensed, you should only provide the link in the digital course repository. This way, students will have access to the entire work, whilst only 15% of a work may be uploaded to the electronic course repository.
Below is an overview of the quantities permitted by law.
- Short works:
- individual articles from specialist journals and academic journals
- Illustrations
- Other minor works:
- Printed works (e.g. scripts, articles from anthologies): max. 25 pages
- Sheet music: max. 6 pages
- out-of-print works, i.e. no longer available in either physical or digital form
- All other courses: a maximum of 15% per lecture/seminar
- including works that are not part of the institution’s own collection (i.e. the ULB collection) (e.g. via document delivery or interlibrary loan to Section 60e(5) (based on)
A work is out of print,
- for which there is no longer a publishing contract and which is therefore no longer available through bookshops. Second-hand copies are not taken into account here. A work is not considered out of print as long as it is available in bookshops in the same or a later edition. This includes new editions as e-books as well as, for example, reprints or commercially available microform editions.
- which was published in Germany before 1 January 1966 in books, specialist journals, newspapers, magazines or other publications.
- which was published within the borders of what is now the Federal Republic of Germany
The source, including the author’s name, must be cited.
for digital course materials
HARIEL document delivery service for MLU staff
HARIEL is the ULB’s free campus delivery service, run by research staff which can be accessed at Martin Luther University. Articles are supplied from journal volumes held by the library exclusively in print form. Excluded from the delivery service are articles from daily newspapers and so-called newsstand magazines (for copyright reasons), as well as articles from journal titles available online (see Electronic Journal Library).
To avoid receiving negative responses regarding printed journals, please check before placing your order whether the required volume of the journal is actually available at the selected library. For this purpose, we recommend using the ULB’s Discovery system (Ha:Lit).
for journal articles published as part of HARIEL
Subito direct delivery service
Subito is a paid document delivery service for copies of articles and books. Deliveries are made directly to end customers without the involvement of the local library. Orders are usually processed within three working days; urgent orders are processed within 24 hours.
To use this service, you must register and place an order yourself.
Further information is available in these Videos.