Scanning

Why use the scanning service?

The scanning service helps you make book chapters and journal articles more easily accessible for your students. We scan the material, add the files to Blackboard and let you know how you can link to this material from your course pages.

What can be scanned?

The material requested must be covered by the Copyright Licencing Agency's Photocopying and Scanning Higher Education Licence. This means:

• The book or journal issue must already be owned by the library
• It must published in participating countries, which include the UK, US, Australia, Canada and some European countries, and not published by a company that has opted out of the licence (we will let you know if a book or journal can’t be scanned)
• 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 you would like material scanned which we don't have in the library or which is not covered by the licence (such as a second chapter from a book) please still get in touch as there are other services we may be able to use. Please allow more time for these:

• The HERON service (Higher Education Resources On Demand)
• Copyright-cleared extracts from the British Library

More information on copyright.

How we deal with requests

• We will check requests and get back to you if there are any problems or if we need further information
• We will scan material on a first-come, first-served basis and waiting times will depend on how many requests we get
• If the material is already available from the library's electronic collections (ejournals and ebooks) we will refer you to these instead
• We will provide scans in the form of PDF files which we put up on Blackboard for the duration of the module
• We will contact you after a year to see if you want to use the scan again. If not, we'll remove the files
  
  Please send any enquiries on the scanning service to the team at clascanrequests@gcu.ac.uk

How to make a request

Please fill in this form, providing as much information as possible, and then Submit request.