Faculty, Staff and Library Patrons:
This document provides information on how you can continue to order articles from the ETSU Medical Library. Three methods for ordering will be outlined. They are:
- Sending a direct email request to the interlibrary loan department
- Using the online order form to submit a request
- Ordering directly through PubMed-single or multiple articles
If you have any questions after reviewing this document, please direct them to Kelly Loyd at loydk@etsu.edu or (423) 439-7032.
Please read this document and decide which document ordering method you prefer to use. It is entirely up to you which one you want to select.
- Sending a direct email request to the interlibrary loan department.
You can email us a request for an article or articles by sending us an email at Quillenill@etsu.edu. You can send a citation or a link to an article or multiple articles, and we will order the article and email it to you within 1-3 business days.
- An online order form is available on the ETSU Medical Library webpage here: https://www.etsu.edu/medlib/.
The link to the order form is on the left side on the webpage in the box marked My Library. This link is Order ILL Document. It is circled in the figure below.
Clicking on the link will open up the Interlibrary Loan Request form. You can fill in all the information in the empty fields and click Submit Form at the bottom of the page to submit your request. This form is best if you are requesting one article. If you wanted to request another article, you would need to access and fill out the form again.
- Order Through PubMed: It is also possible to order directly from the PubMed page. Articles can be ordered
through PubMed individually or in a batch. The process for both is outlined below.
Ordering an individual article through PubMed:
- Access PubMed through the ETSU Medical Library webpage and bring up the abstract for
the article you need. In the upper right corner above the abstract, there is an Email link. It is circled in the figure below.
- After you click on the Email link, a drop-down menu will appear. The menu will have both a To: and From: Please fill out the To field with the email: Quillenill@etsu.edu
- Put your ETSU email in the From: See screenshot below.
- Once you have filled in both the QUILLENILL email and your email address, click the captcha box and select Send email.
- You should get a small pop-up that says Email successfully sent, similar to the picture below:
Ordering a Batch of Articles Through PubMed.
In some cases, it is preferable to order several articles through interlibrary loan rather than just one. PubMed does offer a method to do this in an efficient manner. Please follow the steps below.
- If you are conducting a longer search and will need to request several articles, you will need to place the articles in the PubMed clipboard before you order them. To place an article citation on the PubMed clipboard, you can bring up the citation, click on the Send To link on the right-hand side above the PubMed entry and select Clipboard. Please see below.
- After you have sent an article to the Clipboard, you will get a pop-up with a link to the Clipboard. There will also be link to the Clipboard under the search box. See below
- Repeat the process of adding your preferred articles to the Clipboard.
- After you have added as many articles as you will need to order to the Clipboard, click on the link and go to your list of articles.
- When you are in the Clipboard screen, you will see that the Email link is on the upper left-hand side of the page. You can click that link and get the To: and From: You can also use a drop-down menu to decide which search results you want to email to interlibrary loan. See below:
- Fill in the To: field with the following: Quillenill@etsu.edu
- Fill in the From: field with your ETSU email
- Complete the captcha and click Send email.
- If the email was successfully sent, you will again see the message pop-up on your screen—see below:
Most interlibrary loan requests will be filled within 1-3 business days. You will receive an email with the requested item. If you have questions about your requested articles, please contact the ETSU Medical Library Document Delivery Coordinator Kelly Loyd at loydk@etsu.edu or send an email to Quillenill@etsu.edu.