TÜBESS – Turkish Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan System
What is TÜBESS?
TÜBESS is a “National Document Delivery Network” that enables resource sharing among information centres and institutions through photocopying and/or lending via the CoHE Thesis Centre or the union catalogue (TO-KAT), in order to meet the academic information needs of researchers in Türkiye. TÜBESS aims to promote cooperation among information centres across the country in sharing resources to meet users' academic information needs. Resource sharing is carried out in the form of photocopying and lending through the Document Delivery Units of the information centres participating in TÜBESS.
Who can use TÜBESS?
All academic and administrative staff and students of Istanbul Medipol University can use the service.
What are the TÜBESS fees?
Document delivery photocopying and lending fees vary according to each institution's own fee policy.
What can I request?
Requests can be made for articles, books and theses. Due to copyright regulations, resources cannot be photocopied in their entirety.
Theses completed at OTHER universities whose full texts cannot be downloaded from the CoHE Thesis Centre are obtained from the Council of Higher Education (CoHE) through the Turkish Document Delivery System (TÜBESS).
How can I make a request?
- You can find out which universities or libraries hold the resource you need by searching the National Thesis Centre (CoHE Thesis Centre) or TOKAT (National Union Catalogue).
- Fill in the TÜBESS FORM and submit it by e-mail to the TÜBESS coordinator, Nevin Betül UZUN ([email protected]).
NOTE: Please do not request theses whose access has been restricted by their authors until a certain date in the CoHE thesis database.