Document DeliveryThe Betty M. Anderson Library offers many ways for students and faculty to obtain documents they need to use. Journal articlesThe 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. 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). |
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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