✓ Be alert! As you research, continue to add relevant terms to your search.

✓ Consider alternative terms, abbreviations, narrower terms, broader terms and related terms.

✓ Use subject descriptors, database thesauri and article abstracts to identify additional terms and ideas.

✓ Notice, and use, subject heading links listed in an article record, which may lead you to other groups of articles.

✓ In your review of articles and websites, watch for references to research, reports and studies, which will point you to primary source documents.

✓ Read through the references at the end of relevant articles to identify more articles and resources.

opens new window Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Contact ILL at LibILL@oru.edu

If the library does not own the item you need, we will request it from another library for you at no cost to you.

To Request an ILL:
Some databases include interlibrary loan forms to complete. For example, EBSCOhost databases provide an ILL form when you click the "Request from another library" link in the article record. If no form is available in the database, you may complete the opens new window Interlibrary Loan Request Form or copy and paste the citation information and email it to LibILL@oru.edu.

• Determine that the ORU Library does not own the item you need BEFORE requesting it through interlibrary loan.

• Some items are available nearby; others may take a week or more to obtain.

• In most cases, you will receive an email with a link to download the article, Be sure to download the document promptly because the link will expire in 30 days.

• For book requests, you will receive an email when the book is available to be picked up at the Library Services Desk. The due date is set by the lending library.

• Submit only one request form for each article .

• After submitting a request, check your ORU email for the confirmation, which includes the citation information.