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Interlibrary Loan

To request books or journal articles from other libraries, use Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Loan time may take 7 to 10 days, so don’t wait until the last minute!

UBorrow

UBorrow

Use UBorrow to directly request materials from participating libraries within Florida's state colleges and universities.

Find Books Beyond FAU

The WorldCat database allows you to search a combined catalog of most of the libraries in North America, and many in other parts of the world. Items not owned by FAU may be ordered through the Interlibrary Loan service.

Google Scholar

Need help using Google Scholar? Check here

Some articles listed in Google Scholar are available from FAU in Full Text.

If FAU does not have access to full text of the article, please use Interlibrary Loan to request a copy of the article for your use. 

Need to see if your article is from a peer-reviewed journal? Use Ulrichsweb.com to search for the journal title. If you see a referee shirt next to the title, it is a peer-reviewed journal.

Google Scholar Search

Search Google Books

Google Book Search

Google Books (previously known as Google BookSearch and Google Print) is a service from Google, Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.