Scanning

The scanning service helps you make book chapters and journal articles more easily accessible for your students. We scan the material and add the files to GCULearn. You can link to these files from your course pages.

The material requested must comply with the Copyright Licencing Agency's Photocopying and Scanning Higher Education Licence. More information on copyright.

What can be scanned?

• The library must own the print copy of the book or journal
• Only one chapter from a book, one article from a journal issue or no more than 5% of a published work, whichever is greater, can be scanned

If the material is already available from the library's electronic resources we will refer you to these instead.

To request a new scan please fill in this form, providing as much information as possible.

To renew existing scans please email the Scanning Team
You should include your department, module code, trimester, module title, course leader, and number of students.

How we deal with requests

• We will provide scans in the form of PDF files which we will add to GCULearn for the duration of the module
• We will contact you after a year to see if you want to re-use the scans. If we do not hear from you, the files will be removed from GCULearn
• We aim to provide scans as quickly as possible but this will vary depending on the number of requests. Please submit your requests as early as possible

Please send any enquiries on the scanning service to the  Scanning Team