Interlibrary Loan Resources
Interlibrary Loan Forms
Interlibrary
Loan Request Form
Revised and approved by the Reference and Adult Services
Division Board of the American Library Association at the Annual Conference,
January, 1988
Rensselaer Research Libraries (RPI) ILL web form
University at Albany ILL web form
ILL Codes, Standards & Guidelines
Interlibrary
Loan Code for the United States, 2001
American Library Association. Reference & User Services Association.
Interlibrary
Loan Packaging and Wrapping Guidelines
American Library Association. Reference & User Services Association.
CONTU
Guidelines on Photocopying under Interlibrary Loan Arrangements
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Guidelines
and Procedures for Telefacsimile and Electronic Delivery of Interlibrary
Loan Requests and Materials
American Library Association. Reference & User Services Association.
Guidelines
for Packaging and Shipping Microforms
American Library Association. Association for Library Collections & Technical
Services
Guidelines
for the Interlibrary Loan of Audiovisual Formats
American Library Association Video Round Table
Z39.50
- A Primer on the Protocol
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
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.
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.
OCLC ILL
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.
Amazon - Great Britain version
Barnes and NobleILL 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.
FreeFullText.com
"Provides direct links to over 7,000 scholarly periodicals which allow
some or all of their online content to be viewed by anyone with
Internet access for free (some may require free registration). "
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.
jake
jake (jointly administered knowledge environment)
an Open Source OpenURL link-server which makes finding, managing, and linking
online journals and journal articles easier by managing metadata about online
resources with a database union list, title authority control, and linking
tools.
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
ILLWeb
A gateway to electronic and print resources pertaining to all aspects of interlibrary
loan (ILL), document delivery, and resource sharing. Includes information
on management tools, copyright, document suppliers, listservs, professional
reading, and more.
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.