Secure Electronic Delivery via BL OnDemand

The Secure Electronic Delivery service offers a link to articles supplied by the British Library to be sent directly to your email address. These articles are supplied faster than postal photocopies and are accessible to you anywhere for up to 3 years.

How does it work?

Log in to your library account and select the option Request a journal article and we will arrange for the article to be sent to you.

The article link will be sent to the email address attached to your library account and the sender will be noreply@bldss.bl.uk.

You must download the article within 30 days of receipt of the link.

First Time Users

If this is the first time using this service, you must complete a one-time registration form:

  • Choose Register for On Demand on the download page
  • Create a username and password
  • You will be issued with an account number
  • You will receive an email asking you to activate your account by following a link and completing your personal details, please note it can take up to 10 minutes for your account to be activated

Accessing your article

Go to the download page and enter your username and password. You will need to enter these details every time, unless you tick Remember me on this computer, don't check this box if you are using a public/shared computer.

  • Once downloaded the document will be locked to your username and will not be able to be accessed by anyone else. You can only print one copy of this document.
  • The document is not automatically saved, therefore you must save it when prompted. Once saved, you can access the document for 3 years.
  • If you do not save the document, you can still access it on any device from the download link for 30 days from the date of the original email.
  • We recommend that you save or print the document immediately, however we advise not saving the document to a public/shared pc.

If, for any reason, you are unable to download the article in time please contact library-dds@glasgow.ac.uk

If the British Library are unable to provide the article you want, we will try to obtain it from another library. However, in these cases the article will either be supplied as a photocopy by post or via a password encrypted link.

If you are unable to or would prefer not to receive your articles electronically, you can specify that you want a paper copy on your request form.

Requirements

To access your article you need to have Adobe Reader version 10 or higher.

If you are not already using Adobe Reader, then you must disable your browser’s default viewer. The Chrome PDF viewer can be disabled by typing chrome://plugins into the address bar then scrolling down to Chrome PDF viewer and choosing disable.

Each time you open your article, you must be online.