Off-campus document delivery
If you are a SU registered student or staff member, you will have access to a wealth of electronic publications available in full-text from off-campus via our library homepage. Type your search terms in the search box OR choose Databases, E-journals or SU Research Output (E-theses) from the FIND menu. Sign in with your SU username and password.
See Off-campus electronic access for more information.
In addition to off-campus e-access to all the e-resources the library subscribes to, undergraduate and postgraduate students (registered and prospective) who do not reside on campus and who are prepared to pay for the delivery of hard copy books and documents to them, may sign up for off-campus document delivery.
How to sign-up
Send the full bibliographic details of the books, theses or journal articles required for your studies to the contact persons (see below) by email.
Costs
Standard charges for photocopying, postage and courier services apply. Costs will be charged to your university account.
Questions and answers
To enable delivery of documents to your off-campus location and to collect the fees involved, a record of your contact details is required. As a signed-up off-campus student you will also receive an extended borrowing period of 2 months.
No, books of the Library and Information Service will be mailed to other countries. Scanned pages from books (within the limits of the copyright law) and journal articles can, however, be e-mailed to signed-up off-campus students living abroad.
Request a referral letter that needs to be presented to the other South African University libraries for access and borrowing membership. See Visiting and using other university libraries.
- All other services, as explained in the undergraduate, postgraduate and prospective postgraduate guides are available to signed-up off-campus students.
- Faculty librarians may be contacted for research support, assistance in finding information, reference techniques and library training.
- When visiting Stellenbosch, you may also borrow and return books at the Stellenbosch University Library or at the relevant branch libraries.
How will it work?
To avoid disappointment, off-campus students signed up for document delivery and visiting the library in person for assistance, are encouraged to make appointments with the contact persons. The contact persons will:
- request the documents via interlibrary loans from another library, if necessary;
- make photocopies or scan copies (within the limits of the copyright law, that is only one article per journal issue and one chapter per book);
- issue the books to the student's library account;
- send journal articles and scanned photocopies by email;
- send books from the Stellenbosch University and Theology libraries according to the student's preferred service, by registered mail;
- send books from the Medicine and Health Science Library by registered mail only.
Collection of library material
Off-campus students are responsible to collect the library material from the post office, renew the items on loan before the due date or return them either in person or by registered mail.
Borrowing period
Signed up students receive an extended borrowing period of 2 months.
Renew material online
Books may be renewed twice unless requested by another client. More information is available on the Renew page under Borrowing.