dokumenTUM

Do not borrow – let us scan for you

dokumenTUM is our delivery service for articles from specialist periodicals or scientific journals as well as scans from books (up to 10%) which are available in printed form at the TUM University Library. dokumenTUM is free of charge and available to TUM students and staff members.

Overview

Ordering

Delivery

E-Tutorials

Costs

Ordering

Use our Online Catalogue OPAC for your dokumenTUM order. For this purpose your TUM StudentCard or PersonalCard must be activated for library use.

Your TUM StudentCard is not activated yet?

To do this, you must activate the library use online. Then your StudentCard will function as a library card and you can place dokumenTUM orders as described above.

Please activate library use for your StudentCard in your TUMonline account under Other IT Services > University Library.
Then log in to the OPAC with the library number on the back of your StudentCard.
For the first login, use the default password (your birthday and month in the form DDMM). Subsequently, please change it to an individual password (max. 12 digits).

E-Tutorial: Library Registration for TUM Students

Your TUM PersonalCard is not activated yet?

To do so, please visit one of our branch libraries and fill in a registration form. Please bring your validated TUM PersonalCard with you. We will then activate your TUM PersonalCard for library use which allows you to place dokumenTUM orders as described above.

TUM Staff at the Heilbronn Campus
You do not have to visit one of our branch libraries. Instead you can send us the necessary documents by mail. Please follow the instructions on the webpage Register at the Library in the drop-down section for your user group.

... and this is how ordering works:

Start the OPAC and log in with your library number.
Then search for book or journal titles.
Select appropriate results and click in the "Get document" tab in the line "SFX: dokumenTUM on "follow link".
Tip: For journals, always select the parent title – you will recognise this in the record list by this symbol.
This opens a SFX service page (only available in German): In the line "Bestellung über dokumenTUM oder Fernleihe" please make sure to check the box "Ich bin für den dokumenTUM-Lieferdienst berechtigt" and then click on the "Go" button.
Please select the desired delivery service and specify the year of publication and the volume in the next step. These steps are not necessary when ordering copies from books.
Please fill in the missing information (chapter/article title, author, page references) in the order form and submit the order after accepting the copyright statement (English version is available after clicking on "urheberrechtliche Erklärung").

Order via OPAC

Delivery

We scan ordered articles or book chapters and send them to you by e-mail in form of PDF files.
Usually we deliver within 1–3 working days (excepting Saturdays, Sundays and holidays).

Costs

dokumenTUM is free of charge and available to TUM students and staff members.

Redirection to the fee-based interlibrary loan service
However please note: If you search for a title which is not available at the TUM University Library, you will be automatically redirected to the article order via interlibrary loan. This service is fee-based.

Terms of Use

Who can benefit from dokumenTUM?

dokumenTUM is a library service for

TUM employees
TUM students

dokumenTUM is not available to external library customers.

What can I order via dokumenTUM?

scans of articles from specialist periodicals and scientific journals
scans of up to 10% from books

... provided these materials are available in printed form at the TUM University Library.