Article delivery service extended to undergraduate students

By Barbara Coopey, assistant head of Access Services

Beginning Spring Semester 2014 the Libraries’ article delivery service is available to undergraduate students. This service provides the student with electronic copies of articles from Penn State’s print journal collections at no charge. Article delivery, available to faculty, staff, and graduate students for several years, has proved to be a time-saving, value-added service as it frees users from searching library stacks to find an article in a print journal.

This service coupled with LionSearch, changes how our undergraduates discover and obtain articles in our complex library environment. Lionsearch easily links to our full text e-resources. It also provides a link to our print collection for articles available only in print format (see “Available in Print” link in the below example). Now, it also displays a convenient “Request” button.

screenshot of request button in lionsearch

When a user (who has already created a profile in ILLiad) selects the “Request” button, the ILLiad Article Request Form is populated with the article information. All the user needs to do is click on the submit button in ILLiad to send the article request to ILL staff who will then scan the article from the print journal and post it on the user’s ILLiad account.

This is a value-added service and is not a rush service. If an article is needed immediately, the user should go to the stacks for the print journal. Book chapters or copies from microfiche are not covered in this service. To make this service successful, staff at all library locations are participating in scanning articles for posting on ILLiad.

To create an ILLiad profile, go to https://psu.illiad.oclc.org/illiad/UPM .

For more information about Interlibrary Loan or ILLiad see https://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/ill.html .

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