Ordering materials for the library collections

Would you like to make a recommendation for a book, journal, software, or database for the library collection? Please check LibSearch first, to make sure the book or journal is not already in the collection before you submit a recommendation.

Please note: This form can only be used to recommend entire journals, not individual articles. For individual articles, use ILL .Submit an online recommendation.

Ordering literature for the Learning and Resource Centre collections

You can order via KeyLinks Learning Resources.

Guidelines as agreed by the Library Committees:
course coordinators are responsible for the literature for the Learning and Resource Centre, and determine the number of titles/copies to be ordered for a course; the guidelines only provide the maximum quantity.

For a timely availability of your order, please take the delivery period into account. In most cases, your literature will be available within a week but be aware that the availability of some publications might take up to six weeks.

General Guidelines

  • Please consider using Open Educational Resources or resource already available.
  • If available, an e-book is to be preferred over the print version.
  • Most recent edition of a book will be made available. Course coordinators should indicate explicitly when an older version is needed.
  • We prefer NOT to licence single textbooks due to yearly reoccurring costs.
  • “Copies” in the text below refers to the number of hard copies for print books or the number of simultaneous user accesses for e-books.
  • Contact us for support.

University of Midwifery Education & Studies (AVMU)

Please consider the following ordering guidelines:

  • Per title, 3 copies will be ordered
  • Additionally, one print copy is made available (for loan) 

Faculty of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences (FHML)

Please consider the following ordering guidelines:

  • Per title, 1 copy per 10 students will be ordered with a maximum of 6 print copies or 10 digital copies.
  • Additionally one print copy is made available (for loan) 

Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE)

Please consider the following ordering guidelines for all programs except UCM and UCV:

  • Per title, 1 copy will be ordered.

For UCM: order your course literature via ucm-studentaffairs@maastrichtuniversity.nl. There is a limited budget, decisions regarding e-book/amount of print versions will be taken in relation to this budget.

  • Per title, a maximum of 2 copies will be ordered.

For UCV: see ordering guidelines below.

Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FASOS)

Please consider the following ordering guidelines:

  • Max 15 titles per course.
  • It is possible to vary the number of titles and number of copies per title, but the total number of copies for a course should never be more than 5 copies for every 10 students.
  • When purchasing an e-book, additionally one print copy is made available (for loan).

Faculty of Law (FL)

Regarding compulsory reading per course:

  • Max 5 titles per course.
  • Per title, 1 copy per 15 students will be ordered, with a maximum of 10 copies.
  • When purchasing an e-book, additionally one print copy is made available (for loan).

Regarding additional literature per course:

  • unlimited titles per course.
  • Per title, 1 copy will be ordered.

It is possible to vary the number of titles and number of copies per title, but the total number of copies for a course should never be more than 50.

Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN)

Please consider the following ordering guidelines:

  • Per title, 1 copy per 15 students will be ordered, with a maximum of  6 copies
  • Additionally one print copy is made available (for loan) 

School of Business and Economics (SBE)

Please consider the following ordering guidelines:

  • Per title, 1 copy per 15 students will be ordered, with a maximum of 5 copies.

Since it is not possible to have sufficient copies available for all students in all courses, literature is purchased in small numbers and students are expected to buy their own copies. Please add a comment to this effect in your course material. For example: ‘Students are strongly advised to buy the compulsory literature’.

University College Venlo (UCV)

Please consider the following ordering guidelines:

  • Per title, 1 copy will be ordered.
  • When purchasing an e-book, additionally one print copy is made available (for reference only and sent to UCV).