Any faculty, staff
or student of The Pennsylvania State University may request an item through
the document delivery service.
Journal articles,
conference papers, reports, standards and other items are available through
document delivery. Generally an entire book is requested through
interlibrary loan.
Most requests are made
for items that the University Libraries does not purchase. This includes
articles from journals that the Libraries has never had a subscription,
titles that have been canceled or that were started late in the publication
cycle and there are missing issues. In some cases, lost items will
be ordered through document delivery, or, papers or standards that are
late in arriving in the Libraries and are needed for a deadline.
Document delivery
requests can be made from almost any resource that provides citations.
This includes bibliographies in articles and papers, databases, Web references,
indexes, etc. Please try to have as complete a citation as possible.
The Library uses several document suppliers. These include:
- Global - for standards. Standards are ordered at the discretion of the librarian. Normally, they will be in the library within a week of placing the order.
- CISTI - for journal articles, etc. Routinely, the ordering policy is
- any article from a journal that has been canceled,
- from a journal that was subscribed to after the first volume
- if there is a time constraint and the article is needed fast. They are normally received in less than one week.
- Linda Hall Library - for conference papers. Normally takes one week.
- SAE - for SAE publications that are not part of our regular collection. Normally takes one week.
- NTIS - technical reports maintained by NTIS. Normally takes 2-3 weeks Also, remember to check the Web since many reports are now available full text online..
For items not at Penn State go to the Materials Not at Penn State page and follow the directions there. Requests can be made at the Engineering Library Circulation Desk for NTIS technical reports not in our reports collection or on the web, and for standards from any organizations that are not held at Penn State. Ask for a request form at the desk. When completed, turn
in at desk. You will be notified by email when it arrives.
For more information about document delivery in the Engineering Library, contact any staff person.
