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Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery

Location:Garden Level, LLT Building
Contact: 2615-3701
Hoda El Ridi,Head
elridih@aucegypt.edu

Amal Khalil
Resource Sharing Coordinator
docdel@aucegypt.edu

The Interlibrary Loan, Resource Sharing and Document Delivery Department provides materials not held by the libraries to the AUC community to meet their needs for research material. The department provides delivery of journal articles and chapters in books from libraries and document suppliers on a national and international basis.

    Resources, Services, and Links

Document Supply Sources
Dissertations via Document Delivery
Benefits of AUC Membership in Research Libraries Group (RLG)
Frequently asked questions about document delivery (costs, turnaround time, etc.)
Ingenta: an electronic research service over the Internet
Newsletter
The American University in Cairo’s Document Delivery Policy to other Libraries

Request Documents

If you have received a login account use ILLiad our New document delivery web access (request your account from the Document Delivery dept. at 2615-3701 or email docdel@aucegypt.edu)

Please provide your exact name, barcode on the back of your AUC ID Card & your status (undergraduate, graduate, faculty...)

Frequently Asked Questions About Document Delivery

What is Document Delivery?

Document Delivery is a service by which AUC Library users can obtain materials that are not available in the Library.

Who may use this service?

This service is available to all AUC faculty, currently enrolled students, staff, alumni, and registered visitors. If you are not in one of the categories listed above and would like access to our collection, please contact your local library's Interlibrary Loan Office.

What may be obtained?

The bulk of the Library's document delivery is for photocopies of journal articles and short sections of books, subject to copyright law.

Materials that the AUC Library owns will not be ordered unless they are lost or missing.

The AUC Library has several sources for acquiring articles. The Library will first try to acquire the articles locally, then via OCLC/Worldcat, and as a last resort, via the British Library Document Supply Centre. The associated costs are listed below.

If the article is available through OCLC Worldcat, the cost will be:

 Status Cost
AUC Faculty Free
AUC Students Free
Staff, Alumni Free
Registered Visitors LE 100/article

Dissertations via Document Delivery

The full-text of most dissertations and theses from the U.S., Canada, Britain, and Europe are available online to AUC faculty, staff, and students at Dissertations and Theses. If the full-text is not available, library patrons can request a print copy from ProQuest via Document Delivery. To request a copy, email docdel@aucegypt.edu providing the complete citation for the dissertation required. Turnaround time is usually 3 weeks. For Faculty and Students, the cost is LE 250.

Patrons are required to get their own flash memory to download the dissertation.

How to submit and receive ILL requests

Before submitting a request, please check the Library's online catalog and E-Journal Finder to see if the article is available either in print or online.

If you already received a login account, use ILLiad to submit your requests, check their status and retrieve the received articles. (you can request an account by contacting us at 2615- 3701 or email docdel@aucegypt.edu

What is the turnaround time?

Normal turnaround time is within 1 week, often in as little as 2-3 days.

Requests that are difficult to fill may take more than 2 weeks.

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Benefits of AUC Membership in Research Libraries Group (RLG)

AUC is one of the first universities in the Middle East and Continental Africa to have joined the Research Libraries Group (RLG). RLG is a not-for-profit membership corporation of more than 150 universities, archives, historical societies, museums and other institutions devoted to improving access to information that supports research and learning. RLG contributes to the world's collective access to scholarly materials. The mechanisms applied in pursuit of these goals have one thing in common -- cooperative action. Being a member of RLG helps link AUC closely with universities and other research institutions in the United States and elsewhere.

The AUC Library is also a member of the RLG Shared Resources Program (SHARES). The motivating force behind this service is access as a complement to ownership. Participants benefit from access to restricted, non-circulating and special collections materials in other SHARES member libraries.

Most importantly, RLG has established effective procedures for onsite privileges. AUC faculty and students now have onsite access to some of the major research libraries and institutions of the world as part of its RLG/SHARES membership. The SHARES onsite access privileges will permit AUC faculty, emeritus faculty and students to use the collections and services at other SHARES Libraries with the same degree of access accorded their peers at the host institution. However, onsite-access does not grant borrowing privileges. To see a list of SHARES member libraries, click here.

Visits to a SHARES member library must be arranged in advance through the AUC Library SHARES representative. Please contact Hoda El Ridi at 2615-3701 or email elridih@aucegypt.edu in order to arrange a visit.

Ingentaconnect

The AUC Library provides AUC faculty and graduate students access to Ingentaconnect, an electronic research service over the Internet. Ingenta now provides faculty with increased research options.

Ingenta can provide:

  • Free online search service: Ingenta has a searchable database of citations and article summaries from more than 30,000 publications.
  • Table of Contents delivery service: allows faculty to have the Table of Contents from journals of their choice sent directly to their email accounts, making it very easy to know the latest publications in any field of study. With more than 30,000 journals available, Ingentaconnect offers something of interest to every discipline.
  • "Research Alerts": members can register specific research topics with Ingenta and are then automatically notified via email as new information concerning that topic becomes available.
  • Links to free online research resources: 15 subject areas have been developed and are available from the Ingenta homepage. Each subject site provides links to a wide range of online resources, including online journals, regulatory information, project websites, associations, career listings and more.

Although Ingenta provides a document delivery service, it is recommended that Library patrons use the Library's document delivery service to order articles.

To register for this service, please contact Hoda El Ridi at ext. 3701 or email elridih@aucegypt.edu. For more information visit the Ingenta website at http://www.ingentaconnect.com

Document Supply Methods

The AUC Library has cooperative arrangements with the following organizations in Egypt:

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To acquire copies of materials from outside Egypt, the Library uses the following sources:

  • OCLC Union Catalog worldcat is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind. It includes more than 82 million bibliographic records and one billion holdings.
  • British Library Document Supply Centre(BLDSC) holds a vast collection of documents and provides access to over 260,000 journal titles and 350,000 conference proceedings.
    We tend to use BLDSC when our parons' requests are in breach of "the fair use" copyright criteria and therefore, additional royalty fee must be paid.
  • University Microfilms International (UMI) publishes and archives dissertations and theses; sells copies on demand; and maitains the definitive bibliographic record for over 2 million doctoral dissertations amd master's theses.

Newsletter

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The American University in Cairo’s Document Delivery Policy to Other Libraries

Because of its unique history, location and faculty, the collection of the American University in Cairo Library is particularly strong in all aspects of Middle Eastern and Arab cultures.  It holds a large collection of Arabic books, periodicals and newspapers.  The Rare Books and Special Collections Library collections of Islamic and Middle Eastern art and architecture, notably the Creswell and Hassan Fathy Collections are exceptional.  For a more complete listing of AUC holdings, visit their homepage at http://library.aucegypt.edu

OCLC symbol: MEAUC
Library Name:  Libraries & Learning Technologies (LLT)
Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery Dept.
Head: Hoda El Ridi
Email: elridih@aucegypt.edu
Resource Sharing Coordinator: Amal Khalil
Email: docdel@aucegypt.edu
Library Web page: http://library.aucegypt.edu

The American University in Cairo
New Cairo Campus
AUC Avenue
Road 90 P. O. Box 74,
New Cairo 11835, EGYPT
 
Tel: 20-2-2615-3701/ 202-2615-3175
Fax:202 2797 4903

Lending contacts: docdel@aucegypt.edu
Acceptable methods of request transmission: ILLiad/Odyssey, Ariel, email, fax and mail.
Ariel: 213.181.243.14
Odyssey: 213.181.243.13

SHARES Participant
International Lender: Yes
Reciprocal Lender: Yes

NOTE:  We do not deal with returnables.  We deal only with photocopies of journal articles or chapters in books subject to copyright law.

Individuals wishing to request materials from our collections must submit their requests through their local library.

Charges:

$10 for SHARES Participants
$15 for other institutions
Free for libraries participating in reciprocal agreements for photocopies.

Billing methods:
IFM within OCLC (preferred)
We accept IFLA vouchers
Invoices are sent with the material

Delivering AUC Theses to Libraries abroad
After getting a written permission from the author, we send a copy of the thesis to the institution with an invoice attached.
Cost is $40 sent by FedEx
Invoices are sent with the material

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