Request copies of books or articles through our Document Deliver/InterLibrary Loan department. Electronic delivery is provided through the InterLibrary Loan/Article Delivery System, which also enables you to easily request articles directly from databases by using the InfoLink system.
Registering for electronic Delivery
- Sign in to the Interlibrary Loan/Article Delivery system using your HawkID and password.
- The first time you sign in, you will be asked to create an account including your preferred shipping address and password known only to you.
- It is important to choose Distance Education whenever you are given that option. This will trigger the system to send articles to you rather than have them held at the main library.
- Use this video for more information.
Requesting Articles
- Articles may be available electronically if the copyright holder has granted permission for electronic access. Use the Infolink button in any University of Iowa database to check for online availability.
- Use the Interlibrary Loan/Article Delivery system to request articles.If the article is not available online, the Infolink button in the database you search should give you an option to request the article through the Article Delivery Service.
- In most cases, we will scan articles and notify you by email when they are available in the system.
- We can get and deliver articles (not books) from other libraries through this system.
- Use this video for more information.
Requesting Books
- Request books from the University of Iowa Libraries Interlibrary Loan/Article Delivery system.Books will be shipped directly to the address you specify.
- You will need to know the:
- Author or Editor and title of the book
- It will help us find the right book if you include other information including the call number from the University of Iowa catalog. (Other libraries might assign a different call number - use ours.)
- Be sure to specify if you need a specific edition of the book or if any edition will do.
- Books will be shipped at the University of Iowa Libraries' expense and will include instructions on how to return them. Return shipping is at your expense.
If the University of Iowa does not have my book
- Use the same process outlined above to request books from other libraries. However...
- For time-saving reasons, you might prefer to request books we do not own from a local public or academic library in your area. The owning library can send the book directly to your local library rather than to us and then on to you.
- Use our library catalog to check UI availability.
- Use WorldCat or the NCES public library locator to find libraries near you.
- Requesting books from other libraries through WorldCat video.