Document Delivery Service Policy
Using document delivery service, NJIT students, faculty, and staff may request scans of journal articles and book chapters from materials available in the Van Houten Library and Littman Library print collection. Interlibrary Loan (ILL) staff will scan articles or book chapters and deliver them as a PDF to library patrons’ ILLiad accounts.
The library has established “fair use” copyright guidelines based on the copyright law of the United States and current practices in other academic libraries.
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of reproductions of copyrighted materials. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specific conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.
NJIT library reserves the right to refuse to accept a document delivery request if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the request would involve violation of copyright law in excess of “fair use”.
To operate within these established “fair use” guidelines and, at the same time, strive to provide access to scholarly research materials, copyright policies for document delivery requests are as follows:
Library patrons who need more than one article from a print journal issue or one chapter from a book are encouraged to visit the Van Houten Library or Littman Library to access and use these materials in person.