Library Assist: Answers

If you are studying with us as a distance learner or as a University of Wolverhampton Online student, the University Library will have worked in conjunction with your module leaders to provide your reading resources online. You can access these through your module reading lists which will be available in Canvas.

• If you happen to live close to one of our campuses, you are more than welcome to use the print stock in our libraries too. However, we do not offer a postal loans service and it will be expected that you make use of our electronic resources in the first instance.

• The University of Wolverhampton participates in the SCONUL Access scheme - this can allow you access to the printed books and journals (but not online resources) and study spaces at other University libraries in the UK and Ireland which belong to the scheme. If you are outside of the UK and live close to a library you would like to visit, you would need to contact them directly to find out if they have a visitor/membership option. 

• The Inter Library Loan service - which enables you to request items that are not part of our collections - is available to you but bear in mind that physical items will need to be collected from one of our campuses, so please don't place a request unless you are able to come on-site. Journal articles and book chapter requests will usually be supplied digitally but please allow enough time for these to be processed. Scans from the British Library can be supplied within 24 hours (excluding weekends) but if we need to seek the item from another provider this can take up to 10 days.

• Our online chat service Library Assist operates 24/7 and is staffed by international librarians when the main library team aren't available - feel free to submit a chat if you have any library-related questions.

• In addition, you are entitled to make use of our Skills for Learning service, including accessing online workshops and bookable one-to-one support for assistance with referencing, academic writing, critical thinking and other general study skills queries.