Document Delivery Policies
Document Delivery is offered to current GVSU Students, Faculty, Emeritus Faculty, Retirees, and Staff. GVSU University Libraries will pay up to $20.00 on your behalf for each item requested (this is almost always enough to get the item to you without charge). Please allow 1-2 weeks for delivery of items.
What can I get through Document Delivery?
- Articles not available online.
- Books, videos, DVDs, and Theses that GVSU does not own or that are lost.
We cannot supply the following items through Document Delivery:
- Textbooks
- Rare books
- Complete issues of journals
- Genealogy
- Physical books if we own the e-book version
- E-books or streaming media
- Course Reserve material
- Book chapters from GVSU-owned, circulating books
How many requests can I place through Document Delivery?
|
Status |
Number of Requests |
|---|---|
|
Undergraduate Student |
10 active requests |
|
Graduate Student |
20 active requests |
|
Faculty, Staff, and Retirees |
30 active requests |
Digital Copies and Borrowed Books, Music, DVDs, etc.
- Digital Copies are available to download for 14 days.
- GVSU's Library honors the due date and any use restrictions specified by the supplying library. These restrictions include but are not limited to: in library use only, no renewals, short loan periods, or any other potential restriction the lending library imposes.
- You may request 1 renewal from the lending library, and renewals on borrowed items are done at the discretion of the lending library.
- Items more than 7 days overdue may not be renewed.
- If you have items more than 14 days overdue, your account will be blocked.
