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.
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.
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.
Amazon - Great Britain version
WorldCat.org
Find what you want in a library near you with WorldCat, a global catalog of library collections.
ILL Web Resources - Books Online
The Online Books Page
The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all.
readprint.com
Free online books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.
The Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a 501(c0(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.
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.
ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center
Search a bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations on education topics going back to 1966. Over 100,000 full text available for free.
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
Interlibrary
Loan Fact Sheet
Basic information for North American libraries on transacting interlibrary
loan requests.
ShareILL
A gateway to electronic and print resources pertaining to all aspects of interlibrary loan (ILL), document delivery, and resource sharing.
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.