Document loans and retrieval

Students, professors, researchers, and administrative and services staff from URL (ESDI excluded).

Visit the library and pick up the book you’re interested in directly from the shelves. If the book is not available or you’d like to ensure you get it, you can easily reserve it through Discovery.

Remember to bring your TUI card or the Esade app, as they are required to borrow the book using the self-checkout machine. Both borrowing and returning must always be done through these machines at any of our libraries.

• Students and Esade Alumni
  Number of documents: 10.
  Loan period: White label 21 days | Green label 15 days | Yellow label 7 days.
• PhD students
  Number of documents: 10.
  Loan period: White label 30 days | Green label 15 days | Yellow label 7 days.
• Faculty and Staff
  Number of documents: 30.
  Loan period: White label 60 days | Green label 15 days | Yellow label 7 days.

Documents with a red label cannot be borrowed.

If you’re interested in reserving a document, whether it’s currently borrowed or available, you can do so by accessing My Account. You can also check the status of your request or cancel it there.

All loans can be renewed up to 9 times, before the due date and if no other user has requested the item.

You can renew through My Account. To make the seventh renewal, it is necessary to return the document and check it out again.

We can send library documents to the campus of your choice.

If you attend classes or work at the Esade campus in Madrid, you can request the delivery of books through your Program Manager.

Please note that this service does not apply to basic bibliography items and journals.

If you return a document after the due date, you will be penalised with one day without service for each day the item was overdue.

If you damage or lose a borrowed document, you must replace it with an identical item or, if this is not possible, pay the cost of the item.

Students, professors, researchers, and administrative and services staff from URL (ESDI excluded).

To make a PUC loan, access Discovery and search the catalog for the document you want to reserve. Once located, click on the Request URL option and specify the Esade library where you wish to pick it up.

When the document is available, you will receive a notification informing you of the pickup deadline. The delivery may take between 3 and 4 days.

You can check the status of your request or cancel it through My Account.

Alternatively, you can go personally to the library where the document is located and borrow it using your URL card.

The number of documents a user can borrow is always the same, no matter from which URL library the books are borrowed. The loan policies about reserves, renewals and penalties are common to all URL libraries.

Students, professors, researchers, and administrative and services staff from URL (ESDI excluded).

You cannot use this service if you are not currently an Esade member, if you have overdue item, if you have been temporarily blocked from using the loan service or if you are an alumni.
 

You can borrow documents in two ways:

• PUC in situ: Borrow the book directly from the library that owns it. You must use your URL card.
• PUC vía web: The starting point is Discovery following this instructions.
   

In addition to the number of documents you can borrow from URL libraries, you can borrow from PUC libraries up to:

• Undergraduate students: 10 items for 21 days + 6 renewals.
• Graduate students, 3rd cycle, masters and doctoral students: 10 items for 21 days + 6 renewals .
• Professors, research staff and administrative and services staff: 10 items for 21 days + 6 renewals.

The maximum number of documents, includes items that the user has requested or borrowed through the PUC, and items that are currently being returned to their original institution.

You can return the documents to your library or to any library of the institution that owns the document.

• Members of Esade
  • For articles and book chapters: students, faculty, researchers, and administrative staff of the URL.
  • For physical books: faculty, researchers, and administrative staff of the URL.
• CBUC member libraries
  • You can request reproductions of journal articles or book chapters through GT-BIB ($URLG) or via pi@url.edu.
  • To request book loans, you can do so through Esade's GT-BIB ($URLE) or via library@esade.edu.
  • You can register as users through this link and make your requests and track them from here.
• Other libraries
  • You can request the loan or reproduction of documents through Esade's GT-BIB ($URLE) or via library@esade.edu.

Before requesting a document, make sure it is not available in Esade or Ramon Llull University libraries or through the PUC or Consortial borrowing.  

• Check the catalogue to see if we have a document or journal in hard copy.  
• Check eJournals to check if we have a magazine in digital format.

For documents not found in any of the libraries mentioned above, search for it in Discovery and click on the option "Request a physical copy through the Document Delivery Service."

If you can't find the title you're looking for, from the same Discovery, through the option "Didn’t find what you’re looking for? Click here and request it," you'll have access to a form to enter the details of the document you need. We will carry out the search for you.

The waiting time depends on the type of document and the supplying library. It can range from five days to two weeks if the documents are requested from Spanish libraries, and from fifteen days to three weeks if requested from foreign libraries.

The cost of this service depends on the type of document requested and the source library.

• Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya
  • Articles and chapters: € 0,12 + 21% IVA per page.
  • Books: € 0.
• Other libraries in Spain
  • Articles and chapters: 3,30€ + IVA (set of 1 to 40 copies + 1€ for each set of 10 additional copies).
  • Books: € 8.
• Foreign libraries
  • Request quote at library@esade.edu.