Jewish General Hospital | Document Delivery / Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

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Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan is a service that obtains journal articles and books that are not available at the JGH Libraries for JGH staff.

Before submitting a request, please check if your desired item is:
- accessible through our subscriptions,
- open access, or
- part of our print or electronic book collection.
You can submit your interlibrary loan requests electronically in two ways:
- (1) Complete one of the following forms:
  - Request a book ? ILL if you are requesting a book or a book chapter.
  - Request an article ? ILL if you are requesting an article or conference presentation.
- (2) While searching in one of the biomedical databases to which the JGH libraries subscribe, click on the link "Find it at JGH" near your desired item.
  - If we do not pay for access to the full text, this link will take you to a partially pre-filled ILL form.
Please ensure that the form is duly completed in order to accelerate the process.

Journal Articles will be sent to your inbox and can take from one to seven working days.
Books can be available for pickup at the health sciences library between one to three weeks after requested.
- You will be notified of their arrival as per your instructions in the request form.

Upon receipt of the request, a JGH library staff member will attempt to obtain a loan or copy of the desired item from another library.

To keep the book in good order until you return it.
To return it on time so as to keep our library in good standing with the lending library.
To contact the ILL service ( docdel.jgh@mail.mcgill.ca) before the due date if you want to renew the book.
- Please Note: Our ability to renew your loan depends on the lending library’s policy.

Please do not hesitate to contact us:

Nicolas Pierre Sauvé
Health Sciences Library,
Tel. (514) 340-8222 ext. 25931
Email : docdel.jgh@mail.mcgill.ca

Document Delivery / Interlibrary Loan (ILL)