Interlibrary Loan is a free service for faculty and students where libraries send books and articles to other libraries. All you need to do is fill-out the ILL Request form!
Library software can usually autofill the majority of the ILL request form for you. For an auto-filled form, search for the book or article through the search box on the library homepage, or use the box below.
Once you find the article in the search, click the title to open the full view (example image below). Under "Access Options" on the right, click the blue "Request Item through Interlibrary Loan" button. Follow the prompts, submit the form, and wait for email updates.
Having trouble finding it through our library's search feature? Use the interlibrary loan request form found here to make a request.
Have questions or need more help? Sometimes it's tricky. Contact your librarian or visit the library for assistance.
When you have an article that aligns with your research, it can be leveraged to find related articles. Every article is a voice in the larger scholarly conversation. The article in hand cited other sources to inform their work. Just as you are going to use this article to inform your research, so have others.
Web of Science is a tool that tracks the articles that connect to each other. Search for a known article and view the articles that it cited and the articles that referenced it. In this manner, we can see the voices in the scholarly conversation before the article and after the article.
This can also be done with Google Scholar, though with a few caveats. Google Scholar only allows searching connected articles forward in time, not back (references). Google Scholar's results will also include dissertations, which are not admissible as they are not peer-reviewed scholarly articles, so you will have to manually sort through these.
