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

Amal Khalil
Resource Sharing Coordinator
docdel@aucegypt.edu

The 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.)
Newsletter
The American University in Cairo’s Document Delivery Policy to Other Institutions Abroad.

Request Documents

To request journal articles, book chapters (but not entire books!), and other documents through Document Delivery you have to create an ILLiad account:

See Link" Log on to ILLiad" on the Library homepage.

You will receive a confirmation email when the information is processed and your account has been created.

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

If you already received a login account, use ILLiad (our document delivery web access) to submit your requests, check their status and retrieve received articles. Please make sure that the data entered is spelled correctly!

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?

We do not borrow books that must be returned. We deal only with non-returnable materials such as photocopies of journal articles, or chapters in books and conference proceedings subject to copyright law. We can, however, usually get photocopies of entire theses though we may ask you to pay for those.

You can not order more than one article from the same issue and one chapter from a book unless we pay additional copyright fees.

A library may order only 5 articles from the last 5 years of a single journal title. Any more, and the library has to pay royalties.

Materials that the AUC Library owns ( including checked out books) 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 Services .

Cost:

Document Delivery services are available at no charge to faculty, currently enrolled students, staff and alumni.

Charges for visitors are L.E. 100/article.

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.

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 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 2-3 days. For Faculty and Students, the cost is LE 250.

 

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Benefits of AUC Membership in Research Libraries Group (RLG)

Founded in 1967, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit membership and research organization. Institutions around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve Library materials.
Being a member of OCLC helps link AUC closely with universities and other research institutions in the United States and elsewhere.
The AUC Library is also a member of SHARES RLG Program Group . 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.
Among the benefits of SHARES participation is onsite privileges. AUC faculty and students have onsite access to some of the major research libraries and institutions of the world as part of its 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.
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.

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Document Supply Sources

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

• The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)


• Center for Documentation of Cultural & Natural Heritage (CULTNAT)


• Netherlands-Flemish Institute (NVIC)


• Cairo American College (CAC)


• The Egyptian National Scientific and Technical Information Network (ENSTINET)

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

• OCLC Worldat Union Catalog is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind. It includes more than 82 million bibliographic records and 1.7 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.
  Before we can apply to the British Library, we must receive your signed Copyright Declaration Form.

Newsletter

• July 2012 - Dec 2012 (pdf)
• Jan 2012 - Jun 2012 (pdf)
• Mar 2011 - Dec 2011(pdf)
• Sep 2010 - Feb 2011(pdf)
• Apr 2010 - Aug 2010 (pdf)
• Jan 2010 - Mar 2010 (pdf)
• Jan 2007- Aug 2007 (pdf)
• Sep 2006 -Dec 2006 (pdf)
• Apr 2006 - Aug 2006 (pdf)
• Jan 2006 - Mar 2006 (pdf)
• July 2005 - December 2005 (pdf)
• April 2005 - June 2005(pdf)
• October 2004 - March 2005 (pdf)
• July - September 2004 (pdf)
• April - June 2004 (pdf)
• March 2004 (pdf)
• February 2004 (pdf)
• January 2004 (pdf)
• December 2003 (pdf)
• November 2003 (pdf)
• March - August 2003 (pdf)
• February 2003 (pdf)

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

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

The Document Delivery Department allows us to borrow materials from other institutions and lends materials to institutions worldwide. Regretfully the department cannot handle returnables due to the high cost of Courier/Fedex delivery or its alternatives ( the risk of losing items in the mail). We deal only with non-returnable's i.e. photocopies of journal articles and chapters in books subject to copyright law.
Individuals wishing to request materials from our collections must submit their request through their local library.

OCLC symbol: MEAUC
Library Name:  Libraries & Learning Technologies (LLT)

Library Type: Academic Library

Document Delivery & External Resources.
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
P.O Box 74, Road 90, Tagammu 5
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: 213.181.237.105
Odyssey: 213.181.237.106

Group affiliations: SHRS, ILLD, AMCL, LVIS

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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