Digitisation - document, slide and negative scanning
Media and Sales offer a document, slide and negative scanning service
Document Digitisation
Help improve efficiency and reduce the costs of managing and safeguarding your documents. There really are no limits to the type of records that can be digitised. The largest size we can scan is A3
With our Konica bizhub C550, we can scan your paper documents and save them as a PDF. The files can be printed, emailed to you, copied onto your USB flash drive or burned to CD or DVD.
Slide & Negative Digitisation
As slide projectors are being phased out in teaching rooms, Information Services are offering a free slide digitisation service for Aberystwyth University teaching materials only, through Media and Sales, in order to help lecturers to use their images. Please allow up to 5 working days for digitisation. You will be required to confirm on placing an order that you either own copyright or you have explicit permission from the copyright holder for this digitisation to be undertaken.
Safeguard your 35 mm slides and negatives by scanning and transferring them to a CD or DVD as a series of jpg files. Many old transparencies become damaged by mould, so it is worth preserving them before they become un-viewable.
All the images will come to you as .jpg files unless you have requested another format with Media and Sales staff.
Professional or technical slides and negatives can be transferred to a CD or DVD for use for lectures, presentations or talks for your club or society.
If you want your pictures to appear on the CD or DVD in a specific order you will need to tell us, and make sure the slides are clearly marked in the correct sequence.
It is sometimes impossible for us to tell which is the ‘view side’ of older slides. Please mark each slide on the ‘view from this side’ side. If there is any doubt as to the correct orientation of the picture we suggest you mark with an ‘up arrow’ to indicate the top.
Some older card slide mounts suffer from glue failure, we can only scan those that are in a sound mount. Where necessary we will remount in plastic, but there will for a small extra charge.
Remember that a digital projector can be used with your PC or laptop, to give a full screen presentation (all equipment is also available for you to borrow from Media and Sales Loan Stock).
Prices
| Basic | Free | for Aberystwyth University teaching materials only |
| Basic | £10.00 | for up to 25 slides or negatives (35mm only) +20p per additional slide over the basic 25 |
| ICE 4 | +30p per slide |
ICE 4 digital dust and scratch removal (Slides Only)
Digital ICE 4 automatically removes surface defects, such as dust and scratches, from a scanned image. Our standard service scans slides in the condition in which they are received, we do not offer any physical cleaning.
Scanning with digital ICE 4 takes much longer and is reflected in the price of this enhanced service.
Copyright
The University is bound by strict regulations concerning the copying of copyright-restricted materials. It is the responsibility of all customers to ensure that all copying they undertake, or ask Media and Sales to undertake - falls within the limits set out in the Copyright Licensing Agreement or visit the University's copyright website
Opening Hours
| Days | Times |
|---|---|
| Monday - Thursday | 08:30 - 17:00 |
| Friday | 08:30 - 16:30 |