Document Delivery

This is a service that allows you to receive copies of scientific articles published in periodicals not owned by the library, by requesting them from other libraries.

Registration

To request the articles you must first register in NILDE  (Network Inter-Library Document Exchange) in the following ways:

If you are a student, researcher, professor, technical-administrative staff or other person employed in various roles in the 2 departments

1. Connect to the NILDE  site
2. Click on Register for your library's NILDE service
3. Check YES to the request if you have an IDEM-GARR institutional account
4. Select the Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale organisation from the drop-down menu
5. Enter your institutional username and password.
6. Click on Registration, select the Interdepartmental Library of Medicine and click on Continue
7. Enter the required data and click on Continue.
8. The system summarizes the data entered during the procedure and sends you an email confirming registration.

If you are an employee of the Maggiore della Carità University Hospital:

1. Connect to the NILDE site
2. Click on Register for your library's NILDE service
3. Tick NO to the request if you have an IDEM-GARR institutional account
4. Choose your username and password
5. Click Continue and select from the relevant drop-down menus:
   Nationality: Italy
   Institution: University
   Name: University of Vercelli - Eastern Piedmont University
   Check Interdepartmental Library of Medicine
6. Enter the required personal data
7. The system summarizes the data entered during the procedure and sends you an email confirming registration.

To use your account you have to wait for the library to enable you. After receiving a confirmation email you can start requesting the items you need.

How to request an article or part of a book:

1. Connect to the NILDE site
2. Log in with username and password
3. Having received the Welcome message, select Insert new reference
4. Select the type of document you are interested in (article or part of a book)
5. Fill in the fields necessary to identify the document to be requested, namely: magazine title, article title, year of publication, volume, issue, number of pages
6. Click on Request
7. We will contact you by e-mail as soon as the article is available.

The supply of documents generally takes place within 3 working days, except in the event of problems related to the type of document requested or the timing of the supplying libraries.

To provide a more efficient service, please request a maximum of 5 items per day.

The Document Delivery service is free, except in the rare cases where the supplying libraries request a fee.

To collect the documents requested through NILDE make an appointment.

How to make an appointment

From the MyBiblio personal area of the biblioUPO catalogue:

1. Log into MyBiblio with your institutional credentials
2. Enter the Reservations section and click on Make a new reservation
3. select from the drop-down menu next to the Owner item * MEDICINE LIBRARY and next to the Resource item * Withdrawal of loans and articles
4. select 1 from the drop-down menu corresponding to the time slot most convenient to you and then click on Enter

or with the biblioUPO App:

1. from the main menu select Book times and then click on +
2. from the Owner drop-down menu select MEDICINE LIBRARY
3. from the Resource drop-down menu, select Loans and items collection
4. choose a day and time slot from the proposed calendar.

For any problems or information, write to biblioteca.med@uniupo.it