E-COPY OF A DOCUMENT FROM EXTERNAL RESOURCES (FREE OF CHARGE)
Students and staff at our university can receive a digital copy of a document free of charge via email from:
- the RapidILL service (collections from over 500 libraries in Europe and the USA, as well as commercial electronic databases);
- subscription-based databases and information platforms from publishers Springer Nature (e-books from 2017 and scientific articles from recent years) and ScienceDirect (monographs from 2019–2020);
- the KPI Library collection.
How to use
To receive an electronic copy of a document from external resources or the KPI Library collection via email, please contact the Library staff in a way that suits you:
- check the availability of the publications you require in the suggested information resources: the KPI Library catalogue, subscribed licensed databases, the Springer Nature or ScienceDirect collections, as well as commercial databases (orders for materials from these will be processed via the RapidILL service);
- requesting documents from external resources;
- requesting documents from the KPI Library collection;
- or send an email to edd@library.kpi.ua with precise details of the publication from which you wish to receive a digital copy of part of the document, along with your full name, library card number, telephone number and email address.
You will first receive an email confirming that your request is being processed. You will receive the digital copy via email within 3 working days of the Library.
Important! Digital copies of documents may only be used for research and educational purposes!
MATERIALS AVAILABLE FOR ORDER
- copies of individual articles from journals and collections;
- copies of individual pages, excerpts or chapters from books;
- other copies of documents not subject to copyright (laws, decrees, resolutions, decisions, etc.), as well as their official translations, news reports or other facts of a general press nature, and other works specified by the Law of Ukraine*.
REFUSAL TO FULFIL AN ORDER
- scanning a document infringes copyright;
- scanning a document may result in its damage.
REFUSAL TO FULFIL AN ORDER
- it is prohibited to reproduce the copies received or to transfer them to other persons or organisations on any basis;
- liability for the unauthorised use of scanned parts of documents received from the Library, in accordance with current legislation, rests entirely with the user.
*In accordance with the Law of Ukraine ‘On Copyright and Related Rights’, orders are accepted only for the copying and delivery of individual published articles and other short works or excerpts from written works
