Distance students at SLU are offered several options as regards library services. You may contact any SLU Library directly, your nearest public library or the library at your workplace.
Loan
We recommend that, as a first alternative, you get in touch with your local public library or your workplace library, since in that case you need not pay postage costs when returning the material. If there is no library service in your home community, you are welcome to become a borrower with us.
Books from the SLU Libraries may in general be borrowed for 30 days. Journals are not lent out. Exceptions from this are year books and special issues. Special loan times apply to course literature.
Distance students are entitled to borrow SLU Library material and to order interlibrary loans to be delivered to their home address.
If the book/journal you want is on loan, it can be reserved for you. If you are searching for literature that is not available in the SLU Libraries, in most cases we can order it from another library. Loans from Swedish and Scandinavian libraries are free of charge. If you want to order an extract from a journal, it is usually delivered as a copy.
Note that there is a charge for making copies of articles.
See Price list.
You can place your order via the library catalogue, via the online order form, or by e-mail.
Library card
In order to borrow books you must have a library card. Get in touch with one of our libraries via a visit, phone call or E-mail and you will receive a library card valid in all the SLU Libraries in Sweden. We need to know your name, address and National Insurance number. Please see also the lending rules of the SLU Libraries.
Searching information
Via the SLU Library website you can access entry links to the library catalogues and databases. You will find the SLU Library common catalogue and search system LUKAS, and a number of other sources of information, such as databases and e-ref.
Access to license-based electronic resources
As a distance student at SLU you have the right to access our licence-based resources, subject databases and electronic journals in full text. Read more about how you can reach e-resources from home.
Courses
We are pleased to arrange courses for distance students based on your specific needs and wishes, for example library presentations, information on electronic journals, instruction in literature searches. Speak to your teacher, and together we can plan group instruction based on your requirements. Contact us to arrange a time and a place.
You may find tips about how to select information sources, formulate search queries etc in "Search Collect Publish", a manual to search, critically evaluate and use information. The different substages follow the work process for preparing a newspaper article, report or a diploma paper. You yourself decide in which order you wish to study the content.