Contacting staff at the Library
Toll-free number: 1300 850 339 (just follow the prompts)
Email: docdel@boris.curtin.edu.au
Post: GPO Box U1987
Perth WA 6845
Telephone: (08) 9266 2425 or (08) 9266 7799
Fax: (08) 9266 3371
Loan limits and periods
Delivery of loans
Returning loans
Borrowing material from another university library (interstate reciprocal borrowing)
Obtaining photocopies
Generally, Off Campus students are allowed 20 items for the period of the current semester. However borrowers must always check the due date of an item as some items will only be available for a short loan period and study period dates may vary for different types of students. You are advised of due dates when an item is sent to you. You can also check your borrower information on the Curtin University Library Catalogue, which will list your loans, due dates and allow you to renew items where possible. Your Curtin ID and OASIS password are required to access your Borrower Information on the library catalogue.
All items are subject to recall. If an item is recalled by another borrower, an electronic recall notice will be sent to you via the OCC. You must check the Official Communication Channel (OCC) on your OASIS record on a weekly basis. The recall notice that the library sends will advise you that the item you have borrowed needs to be returned early. Fines apply for the late return of items.
If you live in an area where you do not receive a daily mail delivery to your home, you can apply for special privileges such as extra time to return your borrowed material. Please contact us if you think you are eligible for special privileges.
See also how to return and renew library items via the Curtin Library Catalogue.
If you do not know your Curtin ID and password click on the hyperlink.
Loans are delivered to students by courier. Couriered items need to be signed for to acknowledge that they have been received. They will be sent to the address that we have for you on our library system. This is the preferred contact address that you nominated when you enrolled.
If you wish to change the address where your items are delivered (e.g. to your work address), you will need to change your preferred contact address on OASIS.
The library is unable to change your preferred contact address on your behalf.
Items must be returned in padded postage bags. Ordinary envelopes do not provide sufficient protection for material being returned by mail.
Off Campus students who live within Australia are supplied with return postage paid stickers. This return postage sticker must only be used to return items that have been loaned to you as an off campus loan. Items sent to a Curtin department or school must be returned directly to those departments at the sender's own cost.
Off Campus students who reside outside of Australia must pay the return postage and insurance costs on all items borrowed.
Short course students must pay the return postage costs on all items borrowed.
Please allow time for postage when returning items to ensure they are received by the due date. It may be worth renewing items before posting to ensure they do not become overdue.
A number of Australian university libraries provide borrowing privileges to Curtin enrolled students living outside Western Australia. Please check first with your local university library as to whether they are part of the reciprocal interstate borrowing agreement, and whether they charge a membership fee. To register as a reciprocal borrower, you will need:
More information is available at the CAUL website.
The interstate reciprocal borrowing scheme is restricted to students living in Australia.Open Universities Australia students are not eligible for reciprocal borrowing.
Prior to submitting a request for a copy of an article/chapter please do the following:
Check the library catalogue to ensure the article is not available electronically. If the article is available electronically, you are required to download it yourself. To see if the article is available electronically:
Please note that if you request a copy of an article in a journal or the chapter of a book that is held by Curtin Library only in print, this is provided free of charge.
Under the terms of the Australian copyright Act (1968), we are only permitted to photocopy the following:
One article per issue (e.g. one article from Vol 1 issue 1 and another article from Vol 1 issue 3 is acceptable).
A single chapter of one book or no more than 10% of the total pages (whichever is the greater amount).
For Postgraduate students please use our e-docdel service
For Undergraduate students please use our online form
Wherever possible, we will try to deliver copies electronically to your Curtin student email account. Please ensure that you check this email account regularly and ensure that there is enough room in this email account for copies that we send. In some cases, it may not be possible for us to send you the copy electronically (e.g. due to size restrictions). In such cases, copies will be delivered in print format via courier.
