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Request Journal Articles

If you are a registered user of UTK Libraries and are currently enrolled in off-campus courses offered by UTK, you can request copies of journal articles.

WARNING CONCERNING COPYRIGHT RESTRICTIONS

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material.

Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order, if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law.


When you have identified articles that you would like to see, you can visit our document delivery site to make your requests. We will send the articles that we have here at UTK and will request others through interlibrary loan.

(Please note that interlibrary loan requests can take from several days to 2 weeks. Be sure to let us know if you don't have time to wait for interlibrary loan requests.)

In order to request an article via ILLiad, you need the following information:

  • Title of journal
  • Volume number
  • Issue number
  • Date of article/journal
  • Pages
  • Title of article
  • Author(s)
  • Source of reference (e.g., ERIC)

When you first visit the ILLiad site (for all document delivery), you will need to register. Be sure to identify yourself as a Distance Education graduate student, faculty, or undergraduate.

Also be sure to request Distance Education delivery if you live outside of Knoxville. We will scan articles and mount them on a server and let you know when they are ready. (This method is faster than mail!)

Need to know how to use ILLiad? Take a look at the tutorial.