Library Express

The Library Express document delivery service is a companion to our current Interlibrary Loan request service, and will save hours of valuable time by bringing our library to your office!

With Library Express , you can now have articles from journals in our library scanned for you and delivered electronically to your desktop free of charge! If we don't own the journal, we'll request it through our regular Interlibrary Loan request service.

Who can use this service?
All members of Saint Mary's College student, faculty, staff and administration may use Library Express for their research and educational needs.

What Library Express provides:

• Scanned images (PDF) of print journal articles, book chapters, and small portions of other copyrighted print works from materials the library owns.
• Electronic article delivery only -- no paper copies.
• Fast turn around (3 business days or less if the article is on campus; 1 - 2 weeks if it is not). [Note: Library Express is not available during times the Library is closed i.e. holidays]

How it works:

• You fill out the web form with your citation information and forward your request to us. (If the citation cannot be verified, the requestor will be notified via email)
• If the library owns the cited journal, we find the article, scan it to create a PDF file, email the file to you or you can access the PDF file directly with the Library Express PDF Access number that we will assign your article.
• If the material is not in our library, we will attempt to obtain it via Interlibrary Loan. It is important to realize that ILL requests can take from one to three weeks to obtain.
• You can view or print the article at your convenience.

Other types of requests and exceptions:

• If the material you request is in our collection but temporarily unavailable, for example at the bindery, you will be advised of the expected date of delivery to you.
• If the item you request is available full-text online, you will be referred to the appropriate index for printing or reading at your convenience.
• You can request no more than three articles per any one issue of a journal.
• If the material is not in our library, we will attempt to obtain it via Interlibrary Loan. It is important to realize that ILL requests can take from one to three weeks to obtain.
• If the article is available at Notre Dame (but not at Saint Mary's) AND it is less than five years old, we must ask you to access it on their campus.

Software you will need:

You will need Adobe Acrobat reader version 5.0 or higher to view the documents you request. Acrobat reader is a free program and can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html

If you have any questions about Library Express, please call (x4804)or email Jill Hobgood in the Interlibrary Loan Office.