Guidelines for Interlibrary Loan / Document Delivery Service

Guidelines for Interlibrary Loan / Document Delivery Service

Interlibrary Loan

• Eligibility

  UM graduate and fourth-year students*, UM faculty members, administrativeand research staff only.

  * As for the fourth-year students, kindly send us an email to lib_ref@um.edu.mo for acquiring the account access to Interlibrary Loan Request System.

• Types

  Types of materials can be requested via ILL, for example:

  • Journal articles
  • Book
  • Book Chapter
  • Conference Paper

• Charges

  ILL (Books)	Unit Price (per volume)
  The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library	USD10.00 / MOP81.00
  The City University of Hong Kong Library	HKD35.00 / MOP36.00
  The Education University of Hong Kong Library	Free of charge
  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Library	Free of charge
  The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library	USD5.00 / MOP41.00
  The University of Hong Kong Libraries	Free of charge

  ILL (Photocopies)	Unit Price (per article)
  The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library	USD5.00 / MOP41.00
  The City University of Hong Kong Library	Free of charge
  The Hong Kong Baptist University Library	HKD5.00 / MOP6.00
  The Education University of Hong Kong Library	Free of charge
  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Library	Free of charge
  The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library	USD3.00 / MOP25.00
  RapidILL Libraries *	Free of charge
  The Sun Yat-Sen University Library	HKD0.50/A4 paper + postage
  Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong	Free of charge
  The University of Hong Kong Libraries	Free of charge

  * RapidILL provides article delivery service from the journal collections come from nearly 80 member libraries in the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan, China.

  Request photocopies of dissertations in HK	Unit Price (per volume)
  The University of Hong Kong Libraries	USD50.00 / MOP405.00
  The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library	HKD400.00 / MOP413.00
  The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library	USD40.00 / MOP324.00

• Delivery time:

The average time required to obtain copies from another source is two working days to one week. Book requests that must be sent to Hong Kong or overseas usually is three weeks to four weeks which may sometimes take considerably longer than this average.