Full Text Linking: Interlibrary Loan

A full guide is available to learn more about interlibrary loan.

The Ferris Library, FLITE, cannot subscribe to every journal available. If there is no Full Text option available after clicking on Find It or trying Google Scholar:

Interlibrary Loan Instructions:

1. If you have never used Interlibrary Loan (ILL) before, you must first set up an account.  Please do the following:

• Go through the above-linked screen, and at the bottom click on First Time Users Click Here.

• Fill out every field with an asterisk, then hit Submit Information, and you've created your own personal ILL account.

• *Please note, the ILL username and password is simply anything that you can remember, so you don't have to get too fancy.

Once you have an ILL account created, the Find It link makes it simple to request desired articles via interlibrary loan.

1. Click on the GO button by ILL (Interlibrary Loan)

2. You'll be taken to the screen to login to your personal interlibrary loan account

3. Once logged in, you'll notice all of the article information has been filled in, simply scroll to the bottom of the screen and hit Submit Request.
4. Your article request will be processed, and when the article is secured, it will be posted online in your account.  You will receive an e-mail notice from the library that your article is available.  The e-mail contains a link to login to your ILL account.  Once logged in, select View, and then select Electronically Received Articles. 
5. Your article will be in PDF format, and you can print or save the article.  Please print or save the article soon after receiving notice of its availability - articles are removed from your account after 4 weeks for copyright reasons.