Pricing swisscovery

The SLSP libraries affiliated to swisscovery have agreed on a uniform pricing for services which a user can demand from a library, for example document delivery and requests for digital copies.

Document delivery

Sending digital or paper copies

to swisscovery users within Switzerland / Liechtenstein
Fee
Normal Digital: CHF 5.00 (50 pages maximum per request)
Paper: CHF 7.50 (50 pages maximum per request)
Augmented Digital: CHF 25.00 (50 pages maximum per request)
Paper: CHF 27.50 (50 pages maximum per request)

Generally, the normal fee is applied. The augmented fee is charged to commercial organizations and foreign organizations. Some libraries offer reduced fees or services which are free of charge for selected users, please contact your library for further information. Please note: the 50 page limit is subject to author's rights compliance. It is for instance not possible to request the digitization of an entire item (e.g. book, journal).

Postal delivery of physical items

to swisscovery users (home or office addresses) within Switzerland / Liechtenstein
Fee
CHF 12.00 per item

Please note: Sending copies to users abroad is not permitted. Such orders may only be placed by InterLibrary Loan (see below).

SLSP Courier

swisscovery users can borrow books from all libraries taking part in the SLSP Courier and order them to the desired pickup library, also taking part in the SLSP Courier. The List of Libraries shows whether a library participates in the SLSP Courier.

delivery and return between libraries affiliated to swisscovery
Fee
CHF 8.00 per item

Local Courier

Local Courier fees will be defined by the individual libraries.

InterLibrary Loan (ILL)

Borrowing request for physical items

from libraries within Switzerland from libraries abroad
(including Subito)
Fee Fee
CHF 12.00 per item Europe: CHF 24.00 per item
UK and Overseas: CHF 36.00 per item

If the item cannot be delivered at this defined price, the user will be consulted.

Lending physical items

to libraries in Switzerland to a library abroad
Fee Fee
Lending documents to libraries in Switzerland can be handled with a normal postal delivery. Europe: 2 IFLA-Voucher / CHF 24.00 per item
UK and Overseas: 3 IFLA-Voucher / CHF 36.00 per item

If the item cannot be delivered at this defined price, the user will be consulted.

Request of digital or paper copies

from libraries in Switzerland from libraries abroad
Fee Fee
normal Digital: CHF 5.00 (50 pages maximum per request)
Paper: CHF 7.50 (50 pages maximum per request)
Digital: CHF 8.00 (50 pages maximum per request)
Paper: CHF 10.50 (50 pages maximum per request)
augmented Digital: CHF 25.00(50 pages maximum per request)
Paper: CHF 27.50 (50 pages maximum per request)
Digital: CHF 25.00 (50 pages maximum per request)
Paper: CHF 27.50 (50 pages maximum per request)

Generally, the normal fee is applied. The augmented fee is charged to commercial organizations and foreign organizations. Some libraries offer reduced fees or services which are free of charge for selected users, please contact your library for further information.

If the copies must be printed due to copyright law or terms of contract and digital delivery is not allowed, the price for digital copies can be applied. If the copy cannot be delivered at this defined price, the user will be consulted.
Please note: the 50 page limit is subject to author's rights compliance. It is for instance not possible to request the digitization of an entire item (e.g. book, journal).

Sending digital or paper copies

to a library within Switzerland / Liechtenstein to a library abroad
Fee Fee
Sending copies to libraries in Switzerland can be handled with document delivery (see above). 1 IFLA Voucher / CHF 12.00 (50 pages maximum per request)

Reminder and Overdue Notifications

In general, libraries charge fines for overdue notifications when items are not returned in time.

The overdue levels are structured as follows: A free reminder is followed by three overdue notifications after a certain period of time. After the 3rd Overdue Notification, the patron will be blocked until he/she returns the overdue item or when the item is set to the status “lost”.

All notifications will be sent by email, the 3rd Overdue Notification will additionally be printed and can optionally be sent as letter by the library.

There will be no Reminder or Overdue Notifications for Reading Room items.

Workflow
Mail Fine for the overdue notification
Reminder Free of charge
1st Overdue Notification + CHF 5.00 per item (CHF 5.00 in total)
2nd Overdue Notification + CHF 5.00 per item (CHF 10.00 in total)
3rd Overdue Notification + CHF 10.00 per item (CHF 20.00 in total)