Method 1:

JSTOR and WilsonSelect are two databases that offer everything in full text.

The availability of databases changes from time to time. It is your responsibility to explore the databases that suit your research needs.

For details on how to efficiently search the online databases, please go to Lesson 5 of the Library Primer under List of Available Tutorials.

Here is a brief outline of the steps:

  Click "Online Databases"
  Click "Databases by Subject"
  Choose a database (with a gold bullet)
  Download or print articles provided in full text.

By clicking on the link to the other databases, you may do an author and/or /title search for the article needed.

Download or print the article if available in full text.

If the article you need is not available in any of the library's full text databases, you may process an interlibrary loan request electronically from most of the databases identified as OCLC. Whether your request is done through an OCLC database or through any other method, you may send us up to 10 requests per week.

Do a search on any database identified as OCLC. From the list of results, click the article that you need. This should bring up the full bibliographic record on the screen. At this point, if you decide that this article definitely matches your need, follow these steps carefully:

  Fill in all the information asked for

Last name, first name
Address
Phone number
AU ID number or HSI number
Department
Status
In "Comments" Box - type DE followed by your program

Examples: DE Leadership or DE MSA

Leave the "cost" and "date needed" blank
Click "Submit"

  Method 2:

Be sure to take a copy of the citation/s (author, title, periodical, volume, issue, pages). Generally, academic libraries will allow you to use their resources and photocopy only from their collections.

Sometimes using a nearby university and applying for check out privileges for a fee will prove useful to you depending on what they have and on the extent of your research, especially if you are writing a thesis or a dissertation. Do not expect them to do interlibrary loan for you.

  Method 3:

  Method 4:

This latter method of sending articles from one library to us and then to you is the slowest. We will not send you anything that you can access electronically from your end. You should receive the articles anywhere between 4-6 weeks.

If this is the last and only method, then fill out the form below:

  Rush for a Price

Set up a profile. Do your search and if you find an article that you are willing to pay for, follow the instructions and use your credit card to purchase the article. There are surcharges for orders coming from Canada and other countries.

If you have any questions regarding interlibrary loan which have not been explained above, you may send them to ill@andrews.edu.