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How to Obtain Additional Printed ResourcesThis page provides suggestions on how to acquire journal articles and other printed materials. | |
| Start local | Contact the library at the hospital or company where you work. If you are a student at a college or university, contact your school library's reference department. Check with your local public library to see if they or any libraries with which they have reciprocal agreements own or have access to the title. Find out if you local library has the journal needed, or can provide access to it in electronic form. | Interlibrary Loan | If your local library does not have the journal, is interlibrary loan a service the library provides? Interlibrary loan is when a library requests an item from another library and has the item sent to the requesting library for pick up by the user. Your local library's staff can answer questions about turn around time, costs, and their local policies and procedures. | Referral | If your local library does not provide interlibrary loan services, can it refer you to a nearby library that is both open to the public and that owns the item? | Ordering | If you anticipate needing a large number of journal articles indexed in Pubmed(TM), Internet Grateful Med(TM), or MEDLINE(TM); or are working on an extended project, you may wish to consider Loansome Doc, from the National Library of Medicine. |
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