Australian Institute of Project Management


Request a document

Please fill out this online Copyright Declaration form to request a copy of an article or paper. This will open in a new window.

This is as free service exclusively for AIPM members.

The IRC Research Library is used to supply project management research material such as articles or papers.

IRC Document Delivery Guidelines

Sourcing/copying soft copy articles can be a time-consuming process. Please consider the following:

1) Under the current requirements of the Copyright Act, it is AIPM Information Resource Centre policy to photocopy on behalf of its members only when one online copyright declaration is recieved from that member for each article requested. i.e. Each article requires an individual request.

2) Receipt of this copyright declaration is also required for the efficient processing of the request, as well as for statistical purposes.

3) Simply copying and pasting article details from IRC bibliographies (or elsewhere) into an email and sending it is not acceptable. Also, please do not request every single article from one bibliography - it definitely pays to be selective in what you request.

4) The following rules and conditions also apply:

  • Only 1 article from a particular journal issue can be copied, unless the articles are on the same related topic
  • The article copied must be for research or study purposes only
  • A copy of this work must not have already have been previously supplied by the IRC
  • There is currently a limit of 20 article requests at a time per member, due to greatly increased demand. If this limit is exceeded, in order to provide a fair service to other members who are also requesting documents, the IRC reserves the right to limit the amount of article requests actually processed per member

Delivery Conditions: Documents available in soft-copy (eg PDF) format will be emailed within 2 days of the receipt of the requests.

Photocopies take longer overall to process, and due to the time also taken for postal delivery, can take 5-10 days to arrive.  

If you have any questions or need clarification on any of the above points, please contact the IRC Manager.