Library Services

Borrowing

Borrowing is available to current students and staff of the University of Cambridge, including Visiting Scholars and Visiting Students. Loans automatically renew unless the item has been recalled, or your account is due to expire.

Undergraduate students may borrow up to 10 items.

M.Phil and Ph.D students may borrow up to 20 items.

M.St and other distance learning Masters students of the University may borrow up to 25 items.

Visiting Fellows and Scholarsmay borrow up to 20 items until the end of their visit. Borrowing arrangements for Visiting Students correspond with arrangements for the equivalent level of regular student (e.g. undergraduate, M.Phil/Ph.D, etc.).

Members of Cambridge University staff may borrow up to forty items.

Interlibrary Loans

If you need an article or book that isn’t available within the University, you can order it through the University Library's interlibrary loan department. Prices and details of how to order are here. Alternatively, it is now possible to obtain digital copies through Rapid Inter-Library loans via iDiscover. Instructions are available on the Document Delivery Service libguide.

Scan and Deliver 

You can request a digital scan of a criminology item from the Library wide Scan and Deliver service. You can request an individual scanned copy of one chapter (or 5%) of a monograph or one article per issue of a journal from collections held by Cambridge University Libraries, subject to relevant conservation approval and copyright permissions. See more information and where to request items at: https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/using-library/remote-services/scan-and-deliver