Document Delivery

In order to support online teaching, the ULB offers MLU lecturers, within the framework of Section 60a of the German Copyright Act (UrhG) (German Copyright Act), the free provision of publications available exclusively in print for digital teaching materials. MLU lecturers who have created a course in StudIP are entitled to place an order. If student assistants are entrusted with placing the order, they must provide the lecturer’s email address.

Before placing an order, please check carefully whether the required title is already available in electronic form. If the title is already licensed by MLU, only the link to the source should be provided in the Digital Semester Apparatus. In this way, students will have access to the entire work, whereas only 15% of a work may be posted in the Digital Semester Apparatus.

The following is an overview of the quantities of material that may be made available under the law.

• Works of small volume:
  • individual articles from professional and scientific journals
  • illustrations
  • other small-scale works:
    • Printed works (e.g. lecture notes, contributions to collective works): max. 25 pages
    • sheet music: up to 6 pages
• out-of-print works, i.e. those that are no longer available in physical or digital form
• all other works: a maximum of 15% of the publication per course/seminar
• works not held in the institution’s own collection (i.e. the ULB collection) (e.g. obtained via a copy request or interlibrary loan in accordance with Section 60e(5))

A work is considered „out of print“ if:

• there is no longer a publisher’s edition available and it is therefore no longer available through the book trade. Second-hand copies are not taken into account in this regard. A work is not considered „out of print“ as soon as it is available in the same or a newer edition. This includes new editions in the form of e-books as well as, for example, reprints or commercially available microform editions.
• it was published in books, journals, newspapers, magazines or other written works in Germany before 1 January 1966.
• It was published within the borders of what is now the Federal Republic of Germany.

The source, including the author’s name, must be cited.