The five university libraries that make up the BUVAL Consortium – the libraries of the Universitat de València, the Universitat Politècnica de València, the Universitat de Alicante, the Universitat Jaume I, and the Universitat Miguel Hernández – have approved the document lending regulations that will allow their users to borrow documents from any of the Consortium’s libraries.

The BUVAL universities’ teaching and research staff (PDI), BUVAL universities’ administration and services staff (PAS) and BUVAL universities’ undergraduate, postgraduate, master’s and doctoral students may use this service, which is completely free of charge.

Users of the BUVAL loan at UMH may request up to 5 documents on loan during a maximum period of 15 calendar days. In addition, loans may be renewed up to 6 times or for a maximum period of 3 months, provided that they have not been reserved by another user and that the renewal is made within the loan period.

To request a loan, users must first identify themselves in accordance with their library’s regulations, and then go in person to any BUVAL library to make the loans. The documents will be returned to the borrowing library or to any BUVAL library.

The regulations also govern interlibrary loan, which includes the request for original documents and/or their reproduction and will be free of charge between BUVAL libraries.

This service has two main objectives: on the one hand, to maximise the use of the bibliographic collections of the participating institutions, and on the other hand, to facilitate the circulation of the collections by simplifying administrative and economic procedures. This service will be active from 21 March 2023.

For more information…

• Access to the BUVAL page
• BUVAL agreement
• BUVAL lending regulations