Article Delivery

If you need an article or a book chapter we will scan it from the MSU print collection, or we send your request to other libraries around the world to provide a PDF. Scans are delivered to your ILLiad account.

• Please include as much citation information as possible about the specific chapter or article being sought.
• Requests may also be submitted by logging into your ILLiad account and selecting "New Requests" then 'Scan (Article/Book Chapter).'

Article Delivery Guidelines and Restrictions

• MSU Copyright guidelines prohibit the Libraries from scanning multiple articles from the same issue of a journal or multiple chapters from the same book. In some instances we may allow multiple articles/chapters when they constitute less than 10 percent of the item.
• Scans are for your personal use only. Scans are not to be shared or uploaded to D2L. For assistance with providing articles for a course please contact the MSU Libraries Course Materials department.
• Only one scan per request form will be accepted. Multiple requests on a single form will cause processing delays.
• If the MSU copy is unavailable at the time of the request we will arrange to obtain it from another library. This may add another 2-3 days before the request is fulfilled.
• Articles and chapters will be posted electronically to your ILLiad account as a 300 dpi PDF file. These files will be available for 21 days and can be downloaded and saved.