Process for purchasing a thesis via Document Delivery at the Library

Faculty of Arts HDR students are allowed to purchase no more than 3 theses via Document Delivery in the UOW Library, over the course of their candidature.

To purchase a thesis, HDR students can ask Document Delivery to help you source a thesis. Online sources are usually cheaper but some theses are unavailable from these sources, and a hard copy will need to be purchased.

Once Document Delivery have found a source for the requested thesis, HDR students need to fill in a "Document Delivery payment authorisation form", which can be downloaded from the Document Delivery section of the Library website.

For a hard copy of a thesis:

1. Take the form to the Research Support Team, who will complete the sections of the form for 'Departmental Account Number' and 'Departmental Authorisation'. The Research Support Team will keep a copy of the form on the student's file.
2. The Faculty Manager or Head of Postgraduate Studies may need to approve certain purchases.
3. The HDR student then returns the completed form to Document Delivery.

For an online thesis:

1. Take the form to the Research Support Team, who will complete the sections of the form for Departmental Account Number and Departmental Authorisation. The Research Support Team will keep a copy of the form on the student's file.
2. The Faculty Manager or Head of Postgraduate Studies may need to approve certain purchases.
3. The Research Support Team will then help the student with purchasing the thesis, with assistance from the Finance & Staffing team.
4. Once a purchase is complete, the thesis is usually emailed to the student's email address for them to download.