Beginning in Fall 2020, we have new ILL procedures for journal source & cite requests. Email loans@law.northwestern.edu with your ILL request. Library staff request the items from another library. When we receive them we will scan the relevant pages and save them to a shared Box folder for your journal (you do not need to fill out the Scan & Deliver form).
Please be sure to include:
- Citation: title, author, publication date, edition (if applicable), and relevant page number(s)/pincite(s) for each book needed.
- Journal, volume & issue and article author (ex. NULR 114.2 Gowder)
Please include as much citation information as possible, including edition, date, publisher, etc. Please do not use abbreviations. You can search WorldCat for the correct edition of the book. It is most helpful if you include the OCLC number (located in the Details section at the bottom of an item record on WorldCat)
Only submit requests for newspaper articles if they are not available anywhere electronically. Bluebook Rule 16.8 states that where print sources are difficult to obtain, citation can be made to an electronic source. This means for many newspaper requests you can use the online version. If an online version is not available, you can submit an ILL request. You must provide the complete date (month, day, and year) and page range. Requests cannot be completed without a date and page number. If you cannot find a page number, ask a reference librarian for help.
Please note that items may take anywhere from two days to two weeks or longer to arrive. The turn-around time depends on how many copies are available among other libraries, how long the lending library takes to process the request, shipping time, etc.