Buy Journals and Books

Baker staff is committed to providing timely acquisition of books, subscriptions, and other materials for faculty and staff research and office collections.

Placing Orders

Use the Purchase Request Form.
For questions or inquiries about an order, contact .
Materials are the property of HBS and must be delivered to the faculty office on campus.
Journal subscriptions are renewed by sending the renewal invoice marked "Renew," with an HBS Quick Code sheet attached, to Kristien Creamer, Baker Library B71B.

Types of Materials

Books, working papers, journal, and newspaper subscriptions (print).
Electronic journal and newspaper subscriptions.
Memberships to professional organizations (only if membership is necessary to receive a subscription to a journal).
Video recordings and CDs.
Economic, financial, or market research data. Faculty who have specific data extraction and manipulation needs should contact Baker Library Research Services staff (5-6046).
Baker Library and the DRFD have an arrangement to obtain the Wall Street Journal in bulk for HBS faculty and staff/departmental offices.
Books being used to teach a course should be obtained directly from the publisher. Multiple course books should be ordered through the Coop.

Reimbursement

Faculty and staff requiring personal reimbursement for books should:

Send the books to Kristien Creamer, Baker Library B71B to be stamped "Property of Harvard Business School" to indicate they were purchased using research funds.
Faculty should give all receipts to his or her faculty assistant, who will process the reimbursement.

Delivery

Standard Service

Books are delivered within five-to-ten days. International titles can take two-to-four weeks.
Books are sent to faculty/staff offices via inter-office mail.
Journal subscriptions take four-to-six weeks. Foreign subscriptions can take up to eight weeks.
If pre-payment by check is required, delivery to the faculty/staff member is normally four-to-six weeks for domestic titles and eight-to-twelve weeks for international titles.
Journals are mailed directly to the faculty/staff member's campus office. It is HBS policy that subscriptions may not be mailed to a faculty or staff member's home.

Rush Service (for books and non-subscription items only)

For materials designated as Rush, the library will get the materials the fastest way possible.
Delivery to faculty will usually be within twenty-four hours if available at the Coop.
If available overnight or next-day air from an online book vendor or publisher, delivery to faculty will usually be within two-to-five days.
In addition to extra shipping and handling charges, the faculty/staff member will be charged fifteen dollars per item requested as Rush. This charge includes hand delivery to the individual's office.

Out-of-Print Books Service

When a requested item is out of print, the faculty/staff member can choose between one of the following options. Baker Library will:

Attempt to locate the book through a book dealer for a fee of ten dollars per title. This fee will be charged whether or not the book is found.
Charge out Baker Library's copy to the faculty/staff member.
Retrieve the book through Interlibrary Loan.