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Chapter 6: Using Library Resources

Information Resources

Finding Journal Articles

Obtaining Articles Not Available Online

If you cannot find the full text of the article online in MdUSA, you can request the article using a form available by clicking on the ILL button in a MdUSA article citation, or by using electronic forms for journal article requests available on the ILS Web page at www.umuc.edu/library. ILS' electronic delivery service provides your articles in PDF format direct to your desktop. Once scanned the article will be posted to the Web and you will be notified via e-mail when it is ready. Or, if you prefer, we can mail the article to you.

You may also want to check your local public or academic library to obtain the article. You will need the full citation from the journal index or database. Identify the title of the journal or newspaper in which the article was published from the article citation. Then, check the library's catalog to see if it owns that journal or newspaper. For example, to check to see if a USM library owns a particular journal, you would search the USM library catalog for the library you are using. If the library you are using does not own the journal, and the article is not available in a full-text database, you may obtain it using the ILS' document delivery/interlibrary loan service.

Students who reside outside the United States should go to Finding Library Materials for more information on obtaining materials via ILL.

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