TERMS OF LOAN
PUBLICATIONS:
There are three ways to borrow publications from the Olympic Studies Centre:
- by going to the Olympic Studies Centre in Lausanne. Loans are for one month, and this service is free of charge. Loans can be extended up to three times via your user account. You have to live in Switzerland or in bordering France.
- during the restricted access period due to the COVID-19 crisis, a book ordering service is proposed, with the same conditions as for in-person loans. Books can be ordered by email or phone, and can be picked up from the loan desk during opening hours. As a result, you do not need to show a COVID certificate when picking up your order and/or returning your books at the loan desk.
- through a national or international interlibrary loan. You can borrow publications by asking your library to send us a loan request by email or directly from the Olympic World Library. We will then send it the requested publications for a six-week loan, and your library will be responsible for lending you the publications.
ARTICLES:
There are three ways to consult the articles available in the Olympic World Library:
- by going to the Olympic Studies Centre. Articles are accessible online through the Olympic World Library or in hard copy form in our collections. You can consult, print or download them.
- through a national or international interlibrary loan. Your library will email us a request for the articles you want, and we will send it paper copies or scans of the articles ordered.
- through a university network. The articles may be available online if your university network has access to the same electronic journal publishers as those of the Olympic World Library.
E-BOOKS:
Our E-books collection is also available for loans. Simply email us your request, and we will send you the corresponding pdf for a period of 28 days. After this time, the pdf will no longer be active, but you can borrow it again, if necessary.
CONTACT:
All email requests should be sent to studies.centre@olympic.org.
The Olympic Studies Centre is open weekdays from 9am to 12pm and from 1pm to 5pm.