Intercollegiate College of Nursing

Doc Delivery

Document Delivery 


The Betty M. Anderson Library offers many ways for students and faculty to obtain documents they need to use.

Journal articles

The quickest method, for users away from the library as well as those in the building, is to find the item in an electronic full-text journal, either as part of an index like Academic Search or PubMed, or directly by searching in the title of the journal.  See our PubMed tutorial, plus notes on the Help Guides page.

Electronic journals (when you know the title) can be searched by title in the Griffin catalog, or in the alphabetical list of electronic journals.

When your article, from an index or bibliography, isn't available as electronic text, then send the citation to us, so we can find it using Interlibrary Loan.  The quickest way is to use the "Find it at WSU" link that appears in most citations, and which usually links to any full text available, or at least offers an electronic delivery request form you can fill out on the spot. You can send the citation on a paper form, by fax [509-324-7349], or by email (we'll take phone calls, but we prefer a written format). If you found your citations in Pubmed, you can sign up for the Loansome Doc service, which makes ordering articles much easier.  You can also send the info directly to our ILL technician or to the Library.   Tell us how we can get it to you.  We prefer delivery to a library for pick-up by you, or electronic delivery, such as by TIFF attachment.  Ask our ILL tech to send you a test file in TIFF format; if it doesn't open automatically on your computer, you can download the free Docview program from the National Library of Medicine.  If neither of those work for you, we can discuss alternatives.  Call the Library at 509-324-7344, or email us.

There's information in the Student Handbook about Interlibrary Loan, too, such as what citation information we need. See the fourth page of Section H.

Books

We hope you will also use items too big to send electronically, like whole books [the Griffin catalog also contains many electronic books].  It's easiest for us if you can use a library on our courier system for delivery (look up your local libraries on the Orbis Courier page ), and tell us which one works best for you.
If you are enrolled through WSU's Distance Degree Program, we can have the DDP library support office mail items to you.
If neither of these options work, get in touch so we can figure something out.

Traditional methods also work: come into the library and pick up the items found on our shelves (identified using the catalog and assorted indexes).

 

 

 

Intercollegiate College of Nursing, 2917 W Ft George Wright Dr, Spokane, WA, 99224-5291, 509-324-7360, Contact Us