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Interlibrary Loan Resources

ILL Web Resources - Libraries and Library Catalogs

New York State Library
The New York State Library (NYSL) permits New York State residents, 18 years and older, to directly borrow items from the library’s circulating collection and also offers remote access to the NOVEL databases. To register, follow the directions on the website.

NOVEL
New York Online Virtual Electronic Library. An electronic database access project that enables libraries across New York State to give their communities online access to the full text of hundreds of journals, newspapers and other references. Access is available through your local library website or with a NYSL Borrower's Card (see above).

The New York Public Library
A Branch Libraries' card from NYPL is free to anyone who lives, works, pays property taxes, or attends school in New York State. To register, follow the directions on the website.

Library of Congress

Connect NY
A unified catalog of participating academic libraries in New York State designed to allow authorized users of participating libraries to borrow materials from other Connect NY libraries if the books are not owned by their home library or if their library's copy is already checked-out.

Nylink Resource Sharing
Provides links to Nylink and OCLC interlibrary loan information.

Worldcat Resource Sharing
The source for all information on OCLC interlibrary loan and resource sharing.

ILL Web Resources - Books

The following sites may be useful to verifiy the existence of a title.

Alibris

Amazon

Amazon - German version

Amazon - Great Britain version

Barnes and Noble

ILL Web Resources - Journals, Magazines, Newspapers

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. They aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 1333 journals in the directory. Currently 328 journals are searchable on article level. 60819 articles plus are included in the DOAJ service.

findarticles.com
Free searchable collection of full text articles from a small group of periodicals.

FlyingPublisher
Offers links to free medical journals, free medical books, and links to medical websites.

IngentaConnect
Offers one of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 17 million articles from 28,000 publications, including 6,100 online.

MagPortal
Free searchable collection of full text articles from a small group of periodicals.

New York State Newspaper Project
Identifies, describes, preserves, and makes available to researchers the significant newspapers in all communities in New York State.

PubMed
“PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 millian citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950’s. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other ralated resources.”

PubMed Central
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

United States Newspaper Program
A cooperative national effort among the states and the federal government to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm newspapers published in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present.

ILL Web Resources - Miscellaneous

Best Free Reference Websites

Interlibrary Loan Fact Sheet
Basic information for North American libraries on transacting interlibrary loan requests.

Librarians Index to the Internet

UMI’s Dissertation Publishing
Provides access to over 2 millian doctoral dissertations and master’s theses.

United States Patent and Tradmark Office
Provides access to patents from 1790 to the present and to more than 3 million pending, registered and dead federal trademarks.

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