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Reproduction of documents

The copy permission, type and place will depend on the kind of document. The reproduction of documents in the reserve room has some special requirements.

Photocopies at the General reading room	Reference works after 1900 from the General reading room. Monographs and periodicals after 1958 of the general collection and octavo and quarto size
Scan copies at the General reading room.	Reference works before 1901 from the General reading room or fragile or very used. Monographs and journals before 1959 from general collection. Monographs and journals after 1958 from general collection or fragile.
Scan copies at the Reserve room	Reference works from the General reading room fragile or very used. Any document from reserve collections.
Printings of self-service computer	Of any document available at the library network.
Digital images, photographs and slides	Of any bibliographic document.
Photocopies from microfilm.	From items available in alternative supports.
Sound and audiovisual reproductions	From sound and audiovisual documents of the library in digital media

Requests of copies should be delivered at the desks or filling the web form

Delivery terms

Photocopie, scan photocopies, digital images and colour photocopies TO 20 REPRODUCTIONS	Inmediato
Photocopie, scan photocopies, digital images and colour photocopies MORE THAN 20 REPRODUCTIONS (EXCEPT DIGITALS IMAGES)	24-48 hours
Digital images, diapositivas, traditional photographies, microfilm photocopies and microfilm digitizing MORE THAN 20 REPRODUCTIONS	15 days
Sound recordings or audiovisual	7 days

Public prices for reproduction

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Reproduction of bibliographic materials

Photocopies A4-A3 on request, scan copies, self-service photocopies, self-service photocopies of microforms, self-service prints	0,25 €/u.
Colour photocopies	0,30 €/u.
Low resolution digital images	0,30 €/u.
High resolution digital images	1,00 €/u.
CD and DVD support	1,00 €/u.

Reproduction of sound and audiovisual materials. Support not included

Reproduction of sound (from analog support to digital or from digital to digital). 1 song or fragments up to 4 minutes

1,00 €/u.
Audiovisual reproduction from analogic support to digital Up to 2 hours 2 to 4 hours	15,00 €/u. 20,00 €/u.
Audiovisual reproduction from digital support to digital up to 2 hours	6,00 €/u.
CD and DVD support	1,00 €/u.

Public prices for commercial use

BC charges an additional fee for reproductions supplied for commercial purposes, that it doesn’t exempt the users to get the rightholder’s permission.

Images
Publishing purposes	20,00 €/u.
Advertising purposes	60,00 €/u.
Public communication purposes	60,00 €/u.
Sound material
Publishing and public communication purposes	20,00 €/song or sound fragment up to 4 minutes
Advertising purposes	60,00 €/song or sound fragment up to 4 minutes
Audiovisual material
Publishing and public communication purposes	20,00 €/hour or fraction
Advertising purposes	60,00 €/hour or fraction
Bonuses
In case of public and private non-profit institutions, a deduction of 50% is applied. For requests of 10 or more units/hours a deduction of 50% is applied.
Exemptions
IEC members are exempt from the payment of the reproduction fees when the purpose is their bibliographic research programs.

Payment methods

By cash or card at the Access and Documents Supply Service (Desk of Reproductions)

By card through the payment modul: https://botiga.bnc.cat/tpv , once you have the budget number and the user's reference which will give you on formalizing request.

Bank cheque or certified cheque. In the case of abroad payments it is required a certification from the Spanish correspondent bank.
Bank transfer to the current account of CATALUNYACAIXA, Carme-Joaquim Costa office (ES 25 2013-0421-57-0200504831) payable to Biblioteca de Catalunya (Reproduccio

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