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Document Delivery Bibliographic Management Software
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How to Obtain Additional Printed Resources
by Lesley W. Jackson, Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery, Medical Center Library, University of Kentucky
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| Local Resources | 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 your local library has the journal you need, or can provide access to it in electronic form. | Interlibrary Loan | If your local library does not have the journal you need, find out if the library provides interlibrary loan service. Interlibrary loan is the process by which a library requests materials from another library, which then sends the materials to the requesting library for pick up by the user. Your local library's staff can answer questions about their local policies and procedures, turn around time, and any fees they may charge for the service. | Referral | If your local library does not provide interlibrary loan services, can it refer you to a nearby library that is open to the public and owns the item? | Free Electronic Resources | While by no means an exhaustive list, here are links to several websites that offer access to full-text scholarly publications at no cost to the user:
Biomed Central is an independent publisher dedicated to immediate, cost-free and permanent availability of full-text peer-reviewed biomedical research. Highwire Press, the publishing house of the Stanford University Libraries, provides free access to more than 587,000 of its full-text journal articles on its website. Free Medical Journals offers free full-text access to more than 1,300 titles as well as a selection of free online medical books. The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) maintains an expanding collection of over 520 free peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific publications. |
Ordering | If the articles you need are indexed in PubMed®, the National Library of Medicine’s Loansome Doc® service provides a convenient means of submitting article requests. Available in the U.S. and internationally, Loansome Doc is a document ordering feature of PubMed and the NLM Gateway. First-time users must establish a service agreement with a health sciences library (or up to three additional libraries). That library will be the Ordering Library for your requests and will provide you with a Library Identifier (LIBID) code to enter on the Loansome Doc registration page. While registration for Loansome Doc is free, some libraries may charge photocopy and/or other fees which will vary from one library to another. For more information, visit the Loansome Doc FAQ. |
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