ACCESSING THE MATERIALS YOU NEED

ILL , SUMMIT, AND MORE

The Tools

Serials Solutions Article Linker

• Mostly articles • Program purchased by library• Keeps a list of all the electronic (online)

journals the library subscribes to• Matches citations to this list• Open URL resolver

Summit catalog

• Regional consortium (36 academic libraries)• 9.2 million titles • No articles (only books, videos, etc.)• Material sent to the library via a dedicated

courier• Catalog will show articles that can be

requested via Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary Loan

• Get books and articles from libraries nationwide

• Library mediated – you need to tell the OIT library which book or article you want– Through form on the library’s webpage– By emailing the OIT library

• Email is done for you in the Summit catalog

Using the Tools

Getting an Article

• Citation known• Through a database• Through the Internet• Through Summit

Article citation knownLibraries – Find an Article – Find a Journal

Inyang, H. (2006, December). Scaling Sustainable Energy Options in Terms of Accessibility, Availability, and Acceptability of

Options. Journal of Energy Engineering, pp. 89-90.

Through a database

• Vendor supplied full-text• OIT owned journal• Find an Article button• Email to ILL

No full-text; Not owned by OITSearch for Article

Full-text from databaseGet Directly

No full-text; Owned by OITGet at Library

Through the Internet

• Search for the article – many open access articles out there

• Search via Google Scholar– Set up Scholar Preferences Library Links

• Search via PubMed

Through the InternetGoogle Scholar

Through Summit

Getting a Summit Book

Getting a Summit article