Interlibrary Loans: Lending

Loans

• Monographs and other special collections:

  6-week loan period, not renewable.  Will not lend materials from the History of Medicine (if printed before1940, exceptions may apply), Archives, Reference, or Reserve collections.

• Oversize items:

Will not lend.

• Dissertations / Theses:

Will not lend.

• Serials:

  Will not lend.

• Audio Visual:

  Will not lend.

• Computer software:

  Will not lend.

• Microforms:

  Will not lend.

Christmas Holiday Period

Interlibrary Loan delivery is suspended from mid-December to early January.

Basic Charges

• Photocopies:
  • Canadian Libraries: $11.00 CAD/article (up to 50 pages)
  • International EFTS Participant: $11.00 USD/article (up to 50 pages)
  • International non-EFTS Library: $15.00 CAD/article (up to 50 pages)
     
• Monographs:
  • $15.00 for each title loaned in Canada*
  • $35.00 for each title loaned outside Canada*

     

*When registered mail or special handling is required, an extra charge of $30.00 per item applies.

• *Faxing:

  $1.00 per page, in addition to charges for the article(s)

• Charges for Rush Requests:

  RUSH material is faxed or sent via Article Exchange at the rate of $30/article

Charges to For-Profit Institutions/Groups/Individuals

• Photocopies:

  $30/ article (up to 50 pages)

• Faxing:

  $1.00 per page, in addition to charges for the article(s)

• Charges for Rush Requests:

  RUSH material is faxed or sent via Article Exchange at the rate of $40/article (up to 25 pages). Articles exceeding 25 pages incur an additional fee of $1.00 per page.

Charges to Libraries in Consortia with Reciprocal Agreements

• Monographs:

  No charge*

• Charges for Rush Requests:

  RUSH material is faxed or sent via Article Exchange at the rate of $30/article

• Copies:

  $0.00 per item copied* (e.g. article)

Reciprocal charges apply to:

• Members of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) and affiliates
• Members of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
• Members of the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges (ACMC)
• Members of the Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire (BCI)
• Members of the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL)
• Members of the Council of Atlantic University Libraries (CAUL)

Charges to libraries in the Hamilton area

• Monographs:

  No charge*

• Charges for Rush Requests:

  RUSH material is faxed or sent via Article Exchange at the rate of $30/article

• Copies:

  $5.00 per item copied* (e.g. article)

• Charges apply to:

  • Hospital libraries in Hamilton and the Mac-CARE region (http://maccare.mcmaster.ca/regional_sites.html)
  • Hamilton and Burlington Public Libraries
  • LHIN # 3 Waterloo Wellington Health Integrated Network
  • LHIN # 4 Hamilton, Niagara Halton Brant Health Integrated Network
  • National Library of Canada (NLC)

Payment

Indication of cost is sent with loans and photocopy. Invoices issued semi-annually January 15th, July 15th. Please make cheques payable to McMaster University and return payment to the ILL address shown above.

Credit card payments accepted on Visa and Mastercard. When paying by credit card,phone, fax or mail the following information to us: 1) card number, 2) expiry date and 3) Name of the cardbearer. Please send request order numbers or a copy of our invoice with payment to ensure proper credit.

We participate in EFTS (the Electronic Funds Transfer System); we pay for material we request in DOCLINE and accept payment for DOCLINE requests sent to us via EFTS.

For more information about the Health Sciences Library Interlibrary Loan Policy for borrowing institutions, contact Neera Bhatnagar